by Jamie Notter | Nov 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here's another quote from the Harvard Business Review article about Pixar. Last week I wrote about the difference between communicating and deciding. Today it's an interesting quote about postmortems. I am a big fan of doing postmortem reviews of projects,...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
I stumbled across a few things this week that illuminate the importance of language. The first was a funny website put up by Kivi Leroux Miller on “Nonprofit Buzzword Bingo.” Buzzword Bingo has been around for a while–it was even featured in an IBM...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Seth Godin wrote a blog post about why blogging helps you become a better writer. Here’s one point that particularly caught my attention:4. It’s okay if you leave. Bloggers aren’t afraid to include links or distractions in their writing, because we...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Seth Godin wrote a blog post about why blogging helps you become a better writer. Here’s one point that particularly caught my attention:4. It’s okay if you leave. Bloggers aren’t afraid to include links or distractions in their writing, because we...
by Jamie Notter | May 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
There is a one-page interview with poet David Whyte in HBR in May. Whyte uses poetry to address leadership and business issues in corporation. He said he was initially invited to do corporate work after giving a talk about poetry and an executive said, “The language...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
In case you were wondering, no, Peter Senge does not now speak in a strange collection of undecipherable symbols. That was me trying to post from my mobile phone while I was at a conference hearing Senge speak. Something obviously went screwy with Typepad’s...
