by Jamie Notter | Aug 7, 2007 | Leadership
There is an interview in HBR with Katsuaki Watanabe, who is the head of Toyota. Toyota is about to become the #1 car company in the world (in March of 2007 Toyota had a profit of $13.7 billion, compared to GM’s los of $1.97 billion and Ford’s loss of $12.61 billion)....
by Jamie Notter | Aug 6, 2007 | Misc
For those of you out there who hire speakers for your events, I found an interesting post by Shel Israel (author, with Robert Scoble, of Naked Conversations) about how HIS success as a keynote speaker was in large part attributable to the way the organization laid the...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 3, 2007 | Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity
I am glad to see that William Strauss and Neil Howe have an article about generations in the current Harvard Business Review. I’ve always felt their book, Generations, was the best on this topic—but it was also quite “old” (published in 1991). They hadn’t even named...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 2, 2007 | Conflict, Managing People
There’s an article in Associations Now by Jim Camp about the power of questions. I particularly like one distinction he makes between “good” questions and “bad” ones. The bad ones start with verbs (Isn’t this what you really want? Is there any reason you wouldn’t buy...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 1, 2007 | Conflict
Lots of authors are extolling the virtues of conflict these days, including Terry Paulson in an article in Associations Now (he’s also speaking at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting in Chicago). He talks about managing tensions in leadership. I like it because...
