Operation Second Chance

Every fall, I do a 300-mile bike ride from Pittsburgh back home to Gaithersburg, MD. Well, okay, I didn’t do it last year, since it was around book launch time, but I had done it the previous nine years, and I’m doing it for the tenth this year. The ride...

Creating More Human Organizations

Thanks to everyone at the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) for having me as their morning keynote speaker today. Below are the slides from that presentation if you’re interested. Creating More Human Organizations from Jamie Notter...

Don't Shield Employees from Tension

This is one of my notes from the MIX Mashup event. It was something that Terri Kelly, the CEO of W.L. Gore and Associates said. Well, technically she said “associates” and not employees. At Gore, there are only two titles: associate and leader (and...

Moneyball and Management Innovation

I’m now a huge fan of the movie Moneyball. I don’t think it’s cinematic genius necessarily, but it crystallizes some ideas for me that are central to my work, and central to what we’re saying in Humanize. And it does it in a way that makes them...

We Are Not Angry Enough (MIX Mashup Notes)

That was the first line in my notebook from the MIX Mashup event I attended in San Francisco a month ago. We’re not angry enough. The notebook has been sitting in my bag for a month. I never did a formal recap post. I did write a piece about freedom and...
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