by Jamie Notter | Apr 17, 2007 | Leadership
Scott Briscoe has an interview with Bill George in Associations Now regarding a new leadership book he has out titled True North. His comments resonate with the notion of “distributed leadership” that I wrote about earlier:You know, there are leaders throughout...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 16, 2007 | Conflict
I’ve been working with a group where the level of trust is very low. During a session with this group, the leader of the group asked everyone else if they were willing to work with him. One person responded with, in effect, “If you can guarantee me that you won’t...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 13, 2007 | Change, Conflict, Managing People
Larry Bossidy has the cover story in HBR this month about what leaders expect of you and what you should expect of leaders. Bossidy wrote the book, Execution, with Ram Charan. He is a former exec, and his style is very simple and direct, which is an interesting change...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 12, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradivarius just outside the Metro escalators at the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 9, 2007 | Conflict, Leadership
In Washington Smart CEO this month there is a brief article that gives an example of a company that is implementing a bit of what I was talking about in my Great Ideas presentation at Marco Island in January. There I was talking about better staff meetings, which...
