by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
BOTTOM LINE: Culture management needs to be professionalized, with things like position descriptions and a culture budget. But the people to do that—HR—often default to a compliance- and administration-based perspective, which can get in the way of good culture...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I’m out on the speaking circuit talking about culture, people frequently come up to me and say how swamped my firm must be with culture projects, because culture is the number one challenge on leaders’ minds today. These comments started about a year ago, but...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
I am writing a chapter for our upcoming book, Culture Change Made Easy, and the focus of the chapter is transparency. Specifically, we focus on the “lagging transparency” culture pattern that we identified in our research. Many cultures suffer from lagging...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Our upcoming book is titled Culture Change Made Easy, and we do believe that it’s easier than most people think (particularly when you can see your culture patterns). That said, we recognize that changing culture takes work, and it’s not without challenges. Here are...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
BOTTOM LINE Getting under the surface of your culture is a better use of your summer down time than organizing the supply cabinet. Start with your core values and then pull out the competing commitments you have under the surface. Those hidden competing commitments...
