by Jamie Notter | Aug 23, 2012 | Culture, Humanize
I received this question via Twitter last night: It’s a good question. Decentralization certainly sounds like a structural issue, and that is a part of it. But I put more of it into culture. In Humanize, decentralization is the cultural part of being Open...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 21, 2012 | Change, Humanize
I’m reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance, by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking about organizations. A colleague suggested to...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 20, 2012 | Change, Leadership
I did a session at the ASAE annual meeting last week. I co-presented a “Conversations that Matter” session along with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive who is actually implementing the ideas from Humanize in a very...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 16, 2012 | Humanize, Leadership
Last week I did a keynote address for the summer conference of Goodwill Industries, and in my presentations these days, fairly early on I suggest that we have a significant problem in our organizations today: Management is failing. Yes. It’s failing. The way we...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 10, 2012 | Change
My friend Olivier Blanchard posted this quote on Facebook the other day: That’s a beautiful quote. And in case you’re wondering, the real application of this quote is not in you feeling superior to all those fools who revere their chains. It’s in...
