by Jamie Notter | Jun 28, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein’s work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are taken for granted, cultures are hard to change....
by Jamie Notter | Jun 27, 2013 | Managing People
Here’s a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we’re doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt’s character was bringing to the...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 26, 2013 | Learning
People with disabilities face many barriers to good health. Studies mentioned in this official site shows that individuals with disabilities are more likely than people without disabilities to report: Having poorer overall health. Having less access to adequate health...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 25, 2013 | Change, Humanize
That’s a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There’s a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors,...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 21, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom’s awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says “we trust you. Use your best judgment.” You don’t have to be as brief as...
