by Jamie Notter | Nov 19, 2014 | Culture, Social Media
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. This is the fifth in a series of posts he’s writing about how he, as a CEO, is building and sustaining an intentional culture in his organization, a national trade association. His...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 13, 2014 | Change, Consulting, Culture
When you are interviewing people for an open position at your organization, and you ask the candidate if they have any questions for you, I’ll bet that more often than not you get something along the lines of “So what is the culture like here?” And...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 6, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
“Community” is a big word in my circles, particularly in this day and age of online communities. There seem to be a lot of people in organizations who fret about their need to “build” community for their members or customers, and for large...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 30, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Note that the title says “easier,” not “easy.” It’s rarely easy to fire people. In most cases the person that needs to go is a good person, and probably does a decent job–just not the job you need right now in this particular...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 24, 2014 | Books and Reading, Managing People
This week’s Friday quote comes from The Alliance, a book written by Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn (and Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh). The book builds off of an HBR article that I wrote about last year, where Hoffman talks about creating “Tours of...
