by Jamie Notter | Sep 27, 2007 | Conflict
There is an article in the September issue of Harvard Business Review that talks about “Investigative Negotiation.” It suggests that to succeed in negotiations, you should treat them like a “crime scene.” It has an air of danger or excitement to it, but in the end, it...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 26, 2007 | Managing People
Today someone posted the following on a listserver to which I subscribe:I have a consulting assignment in a few weeks with a board of aprofessional membership association.While most of the time will be spent in building an annual action planfrom their strategic plan,...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 25, 2007 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
There is yet another good article in the Sloan Management Review this summer, this one focusing on an important problem in project management: silence. I think it goes beyond project management, but the article points to five crucial conversations that simply don’t...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 24, 2007 | Announcements
With all the discussion lately in the blogoclump about word of mouth marketing, I thought I’d point out that Guy Kawasaki is doing a FREE webinar about “The Art of Evangelism.” It will be tomorrow, Tuesday, Sep 25th, at 2pm eastern. His link is here.
by Jamie Notter | Sep 21, 2007 | Inclusion and Diversity, Managing People
There is a good article in Sloan Management Review (Summer 2007—sorry, the reading has been piling up!) that talks about the challenges of managing diverse teams. According to the authors’ research, diverse teams naturally break into subgroups along demographic lines...
