by Jamie Notter | Aug 28, 2013 | Generational Diversity, Individual Development, Poetry
Please read this poem, and when you’re done I have some questions for you. Choices As I grew up I started to learn When I was older I learned to imagine I imagined a hero But with it a demon The demon destroyed But there was still hope For the hero was there to...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 26, 2013 | Announcements
Or, more accurately, a group of soldiers, wounded in battle, need your help. If you know me, you know that every fall I ride 300 miles from Pittsburgh back home to the DC area. The four-day ride started out as purely recreational, but several years ago we picked up a...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 23, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Learning
That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): “There is just one problem. Best practices are evil.” To be honest, I think most people skip over the page-and-a-half that explains it,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 22, 2013 | Consulting, Culture
One of our biggest challenges when it comes to building a strong and powerful culture is the fact that no one has “build a strong and powerful culture” in their job description. And, frankly, if you do have something to that effect in your job description,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 21, 2013 | Humanize, Leadership
Get a copy of IBM’s recent report on research they did with CEOs (hat tip to SmartBrief for pointing me there). I promise to do some more specific blog posts about it, because it has some important material in there, but I’ll just start with a collection...
