by Jamie Notter | Jan 28, 2014 | Leadership, Truth
I make this point all the time in my speaking and consulting, yet I don’t think I have ever blogged about it directly. We all want trust. We want to be able to trust our colleagues in the workplace, and we certainly want to be trusted by them. A...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 27, 2014 | Books and Reading, Culture, Leadership
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham Portfolio, 2005 As you can see, this is not a new book–bordering on 10 years old–but it’s worth a review, because it has some really good ideas in it, backed by good...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 24, 2014 | Conflict, Culture
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about “moving toward the conflict.” It’s an important conflict resolution tip that I talk about in my sessions on conflict. It’s almost always easier to deal with conflict when it is small, so when it first...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 21, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
Netflix has received a good amount of attention on its culture, driven primarily by the incredible viral success of its slide deck on culture, which CEO Reed Hastings published several years ago. I have a chapter devoted to Netflix in my culture ebook, along with a...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 20, 2014 | Humanize, Managing People
I read about an interesting study in HBR that concludes that noncompete agreements (standard in many employment contracts) can actually stifle performance. In short, knowing that they are restricted in future opportunities lowers employees’ motivation and desire...
