by Jamie Notter | Sep 30, 2013 | Announcements
***UPDATE*** We met our $250,000 goal!!! Can you believe that?! 90 riders and we raised $250,000. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. Please give! I leave Wednesday afternoon for Ride Allegheny, so you are just about out of time to make a donation...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh Business Plus, 2010 The online retailer Zappos is arguably the premiere poster-child for company culture in today’s business world. Zappos started selling shoes online in 1999, which was...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 24, 2013 | Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team performance starts to flow. It’s awesome....
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Leadership
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the movies who do amazing things that we would be...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 18, 2013 | Humanize, Social Media, Truth
Peter Kim wrote a great post titled, “Can Brands Be Human?” It was a refreshing perspective (amidst the 1,001 posts out there with x number of tips for humanizing your brand), pointing out that sometimes when brands act human, we still get mad at them. His example was...