by Jamie Notter | Jun 16, 2008 | Conflict, Individual Development, Managing People
Michelle Carter has an interesting post about being open minded versus closed minded. It emerged from a job description she saw that required candidates to be open minded (who, exactly, would ever claim they are closed minded?). At the end she talks about being able...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 12, 2008 | Generational Diversity, Individual Development, Managing People
The February 2008 HBR also had their annual list of “breakthrough ideas.” John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas wrote about the “Gamer Disposition.” Although they don’t mention it, this has been cited as a generational issue. Authors have...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 10, 2008 | Strategy
The February 2008 issue of HBR (yes, I’m behind on my reading) has a fascinating article called “The Experience Trap.” The tagline for the article says “As projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from their experience.” Yikes! They ran a computer...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 5, 2008 | Generational Diversity
Suzanne Kart of the Generation Xpert blog put up a GREAT video (nine minutes long) of Jeff Gordinier talking about Generation X. Gordinier has written a book with a super title: X Saves The World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2008 | Social Media
If you are an association and you haven’t already heard about Jeff De Cagna’s new (and cool) survey, please go check it out. He is doing a survey of the association community about the state of social media adoption. He wants associations to fill out the rather...
