by Jamie Notter | Jun 29, 2010 | Strategy
Yesterday during the #hackaction Twitter stream, a few of us geeked out and admitted how much we like the writing of Umair Haque. He blogs on the Harvard Business Review site and writes about very interesting things like being “disruptively good.” In a...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 21, 2010 | Change, Culture, Strategy
Associations have a soft spot for wanting to make people happy. One of the mistakes we frequently make, since we all have diverse membership bases, is trying to please everyone. Trying to be everything to everyone. This is typically hard to sustain strategically. You...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 16, 2010 | Individual Development, Leadership, Strategy
I've written a lot about truth lately–maybe I should also write about "patience," because patience, like truth, it is one of those words that tends to have fairly complex meaning to people–yet everyone defines it differently. This was...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 8, 2010 | Strategy
One of my favorite business books of the past few years is Blue Ocean Strategy, by Kim and Mauborgne. The book documents businesses who went in bold new strategic directions in order to create “blue ocean” spaces (as in, no one else is around, so there is...
by Jamie Notter | May 28, 2010 | Books and Reading, Leadership, Strategy
Did anyone out there remember buying or reading Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations that Could Transform Your association? It was a book put out by ASAE and the ASAE Foundation and written by Robert Olson and Atul Dighe way back in 2001. That's...
by Jamie Notter | May 12, 2010 | Culture, Leadership, Strategy
Disclosure: I have never really worked in the corporate world. My current position–where I consult to and manage nonprofit organizations–is actually the first time in my life I've worked for a for-profit corporation (that wasn't my own company)....
