by Jamie Notter | Sep 27, 2012 | Strategy
Organizations cling to strategic planning (despite strong evidence of its ineffectiveness), partially because many have experienced the downside of randomness. New boss, new direction. New Board Chair, new direction. One really aggressive employee in another...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 25, 2012 | Change, Consulting, Culture
Organizational culture is a funny thing. I think most people would agree that it’s important. I don’t hear people saying, “Nah, it doesn’t matter what our organizational culture is; we’ll perform well regardless.” And if you ask a...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 23, 2012 | Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity
Here are my slides from this morning’s presentation to the Architectural Precast Association in San Antonio. For a change, I’m NOT speaking about Humanize, but talking about generational differences in the workplace. Thanks to everyone who came to the...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 21, 2012 | Announcements
Maddie and I are doing a very quick survey on Social Leadership, and we’d LOVE everyone we know to complete it. Click here to take the 5-minute, 12-question survey. We gathering data on opinions about social media and leadership. It’s part of our ongoing...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2012 | Culture, Humanize, Managing People
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, so these data are nothing to sneeze at. Okay, I...