On the Road

I am off to Chicago and Antwerp this week. On Tuesday morning, I’ll be doing the opening keynote at the annual meeting of IHRIM, the association for the Human Resource Information Management industry. The title of my talk is “Unlocking the Power of Human...

Strategy and Context

Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. In other words, a winning strategy is context specific, thus it needs to evolve and grow (we talk about this in Humanize in the...

Change is Not Hard

I have officially grown tired of the excuse that change is hard. Change is not hard. And it’s not change that people resist in organizations. As long as we think that, we’ll never get better. Here’s what people resist: Stupid ideas Being told what to...

A Different Kind of Vision

In an organizational context, the word “vision” will often score you a point in “buzzword bingo.” And that’s too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get why it has achieved...

Using Metrics to Clarify

I have a love/hate relationship with measurement. On one level, I can be frustrated by people who demand we measure everything, as if numbers proved the “truth.” Many of the things that are the very most important in life can’t be assigned meaningful...
Jamie Notter