by Jamie Notter | May 14, 2014 | Change, Culture, Managing People
When I speak about culture change, inevitably the audience (or more specifically, the organizer) is looking for something practical, that they can take home and apply right away. This can be a challenge when it comes to culture change, which is by its nature a complex...
by Jamie Notter | May 13, 2014 | Generational Diversity, Humanize
A generation lasts roughly twenty years. This corresponds to a rough measurement of “life stages” as well (0-19 is youth, 20 to 39 is early adult, 40 to 59 is midlife adult, and 60 to 79 is elder). Not all authors and researchers on generations hold true...
by Jamie Notter | May 7, 2014 | Change, Culture
Take six minutes to watch this TED talk given by General Stanley McChrystal, in which he makes the case for sharing information, rather than keeping it secret. He worked for years leading the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq, and he said that THE biggest factor in the...
by Jamie Notter | May 5, 2014 | Culture
Last week, Maddie and I visited Menlo Innovations, a software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You may remember my book review a couple of months ago of Joy, Inc., written by Rich Sheridan, the founder and CEO of Menlo. Menlo has been covered fairly extensively in the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 29, 2014 | Culture, Leadership
That title is actually the polite version of some advice that Brian Chesky, the CEO of AirBnB, got from someone who had just given him $150 million in startup funding. What the VC actually said, was “Don’t fuck up the culture.” Chesky suggests that...
