by Jamie Notter | May 27, 2014 | Culture
Jack Dorsey, one of the Twitter Founders and now CEO at Square, sent a quick memo to his employees (that he also posted publicly on Medium) about something that may sound somewhat unimportant: using other people’s names to push ideas. In other words, coming to a...
by Jamie Notter | May 21, 2014 | Conflict, Culture, Inclusion and Diversity
As I mentioned in last week’s post, Maddie and I spoke last week to some very different audiences–one made up of technology folks from some very large, global companies, and the other made up of mostly association executives from very small organizations....
by Jamie Notter | May 20, 2014 | Change, Culture
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser Kodak, once a $10 billion dollar company, failed. Just when they needed to innovate the most, they focused on optimization instead. Innovation and optimization are at either ends of the spectrum. It’s hard to do both. The most innovative...
by Jamie Notter | May 19, 2014 | Announcements, Culture
Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their members. My part of the presentation was about...
by Jamie Notter | May 15, 2014 | Change, Culture, Learning, Truth
Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I’ve made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at really huge companies, some of whom have 100,000...
