by Jamie Notter | Sep 24, 2013 | Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team performance starts to flow. It’s awesome....
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Leadership
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the movies who do amazing things that we would be...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 18, 2013 | Humanize, Social Media, Truth
Peter Kim wrote a great post titled, “Can Brands Be Human?” It was a refreshing perspective (amidst the 1,001 posts out there with x number of tips for humanizing your brand), pointing out that sometimes when brands act human, we still get mad at them. His example was...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 16, 2013 | Announcements, Books and Reading, Humanize
Humanize is now available as an audio book on audible.com, and we’ve got five copies to give away! But instead of just giving 5 copies to the first five commenters, I thought I’d make it a bit more interesting. I want to give these books to people who want...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 13, 2013 | Books and Reading, Change, Humanize
For this edition of the Friday quote, I’m pointing you to an excellent blog post by Danny Brown, in which he suggests that we think a bit more about the new term, “social business.” He argues that the popular definitions today focus too much on...
