by Jamie Notter | Jun 15, 2006 | Leadership
I’m really enjoying Don Moyer’s piece on the last page of HBR each month. This month it is about "fitting facts" to fit your view of the world and what works. He paraphrases an idea from Sydney Finkelstein’s book, Why Smart Executives Fail...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 12, 2006 | Leadership, Managing People
Ben Martin at the CAE Blog recently put out an idea and invited those of us writing the "We’ve Always Done It That Way" blog to expand upon it. I took the challenge and wrote a post about the tendency in associations to focus on the ends and ignore the...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 7, 2006 | Conflict
In the Forethought section of this month’s Harvard Business Review, there’s a nice piece about conflict in teams. Its basic message seems identical, actually, to the message in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, although this is based in a research study....
by Jamie Notter | Jun 1, 2006 | Conflict
Thanks to Hallely Azulay of Talentgrow for pointing me to this article about the cost of conflict in organizations. An alternative dispute resolution company in Europe did some research to try to quantify how much conflict costs businesses, and they came up with the...
