by Jamie Notter | Dec 19, 2014 | Culture
In every blog related to business or leadership, you’re going to find buzzwords, and mine is no exception. Culture, engagement, ownership–and even the very basics of leadership, change, and management–are all words that start to lose their meaning...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 8, 2014 | Conflict, Leadership, Truth
There is a down side to this wonderful human brain that we all have in our heads, and that is that sometimes we can spend too much of our time living up there in our heads, and not down here in reality. This is particularly true when you face a challenge–a...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 3, 2014 | Conflict, Culture
All groups have norms–expectations about how the group does things. For formalized teams or Boards or Committees, once the group has been in existence for a while, the group norms become unspoken. Everyone knows them or can observe them fairly easily and learn...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 24, 2014 | Change, Culture, Leadership
Having spent a fair amount of time over the last few months with CEOs in organizations with amazing cultures, I’ve been thinking about the role of the CEO. I’ve written about this before. It sort of bugs me that the CEOs have so much sway over culture, but...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 20, 2014 | Culture, Generational Diversity, Humanize
After my keynote last year for Sitrion’s client conference, I sat down with Daniel Kraft, their super-smart CEO, and chatted about culture and human organizations. Check it out; it’s about 6 minutes long (if you can’t see the video below, then click...