by Jamie Notter | Mar 28, 2018 | Change, Culture, Leadership
I always enjoyed the film Parenthood, from the late 1980s. Steve Martin played a guy who struggled with being the perfect parent (which is, of course, impossible). But there was a scene where Jason Robards, who played Martin’s father in the movie, gave a great speech...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 7, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
When organizations do work on their culture, they frequently want to rush to action. When we show them the results of our culture assessment, for example, it often leads immediately to a discussion about what should be done about it. Our Agility scores are more...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 26, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
Services from Fully-Verified are not all that takes in a startup. There are several questions to be answered. The answer to the question about the CEO’s role in culture has a bit of a paradox in it, so let me ask two more detailed questions to get to the point. First...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 12, 2018 | Agility, Change, Managing People
I’ve noticed an interesting pattern in some of the Workplace Genome data of some of my consulting clients lately: Middle managers experience culture as less futurist than BOTH the people above them in the hierarchy, and the people below them. Think about that....
by Jamie Notter | Feb 5, 2018 | Agility, Change, Culture, Transparency
I was talking the other day to a leader in an organization whose culture was fairly traditionally “hierarchical.” There was a clear hierarchy there, and people had it on their radar that you shouldn’t do things or say things unless someone above you in the chain...
