by Jamie Notter | Dec 31, 2008 | Misc
2008 has been a crazy year. Life was turned upside down a bit as I figured out how to be a single Dad and at the same time merged my consulting business with Management Solutions Plus. I became a CEO of an association for the first time, did enough travel to qualify...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
This was a comment in the most recent Case Study in Associations Now about a senior manager who is dealing with a long-time employee who isn't performing well (but no one is telling her that). And the CEO is turning a blind eye, but no one is telling him that. And...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 18, 2008 | Conflict, Individual Development
I think forgiveness and reconciliation is absolutely the hardest part of conflict resolution. Back when I did work in the international conflict resolution field, I saw this first hand. We could help parties negotiate better, understand history better, and in general...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 11, 2008 | Social Media
Wikipedia has caught my attention lately. First, in the article I blogged about yesterday in the October HBR, Scott Cook from Intuit is talking about using volunteers to help for-profit companies build their businesses. He argues that there is resistance to this...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 10, 2008 | Change, Leadership, Social Media
The October HBR is chock full of "myth of control" articles. I mentioned a small one yesterday, but the lead article by Scott Cook of Intuit (maker of Quicken) is all about "harnessing the masses" by building "user contribution systems."...
