Correlation versus Causation

My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically significant correlation between a decrease in highway...

Silos and Conflict

People have been complaining about “silos” in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (turf battles, lack of cooperation,...

It Is Better to Be Clear than to Be Right

I searched on my blog for the post I wrote about the “hard work of clarity.” I thought it would be on the first page or two of results because it must have been recently. Turns out it was from 2009, after the session that Maddie, Lindy, and I did on how...

2012 Year End

Time once again for my annual year in review post. This has been a year focused heavily on the Humanize book. We’re very pleased to have sold nearly 4,000 copies in the first year of the book, and we look forward to more. I’ve also been particularly happy...
Jamie Notter