by Jamie Notter | Mar 21, 2014 | Books and Reading, Conflict, Free Resources
Elizabeth Engel, Leslie White, and I put out a White Paper last week on risk, strategy, and implementation. Although not in the title of the white paper, conflict is a big piece of what we write about. We need to make sure that risk analysis is adequately baked into...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 18, 2014 | Managing People
Both Amazon.com and Intuit have both declared publicly that their work teams should be no larger than a group that can be adequately fed with two pizzas. They do this to stay fast and nimble. I think the co-founder of Kayak was saying the same thing when he said...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 17, 2014 | Books and Reading, Culture
Joy, Inc.: How We Built A Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan Portfolio/Penguin, 2013 This book is by Richard Sheridan, who is the CEO of Menlo Innovations, a software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They’ve been covered by Inc., NPR and others, partly for...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 13, 2014 | Books and Reading, Conflict, Strategy
Does everyone in your organization understand risk in a similar way? Have you even talked about it? When you choose a strategy, have you considered the risks (and that includes the risk of foregoing opportunities, as well as the more obvious risks attached to your...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 11, 2014 | Culture, Learning
That was one of the lessons from the session I delivered today at ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference (the slides are embedded below; if you can’t see them, click here). In the session I told (once again) the story of Fitness Australia, an association that...
