by Jamie Notter | Dec 31, 2018 | Change, Culture, Engagement
Since today is the last day of the year, I’m going to boil everything down for you. If I had to give ONE piece of advice to leaders who want to: get the most out of their organizations attract and retain the best talent beat the competition, or even make them...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 5, 2018 | Books and Reading, Culture, Engagement
Maddie and I are BEYOND excited to announce the release of our next book, The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement (for Millennials, Boomers, and Everyone Else!). It’s part of a series of Non-Obvious Guides that our publisher (IdeaPress, led by the super-smart...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 15, 2018 | Strategy
For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. It’s a classic (and excellent) business book from way back in 2005, and the premise is simple: if you take the time to analyze your market, you have the opportunity to choose a different...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 30, 2018 | Change, Culture, Truth
Here’s a typical scenario. You want to create a stronger culture, so you ask your people to articulate some kind of ideal culture. They tell you all the aspects they wish were present in your culture, and probably complain about some of the problems they now face, and...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 10, 2018 | Change, Conflict, Culture, Growth, Managing People, Solutions
When we were creating the Workplace Genome culture assessment, I had an assumption that organizations with really small staff would tend not use it. I used to joke: Hey, if you’re only 19 employees, then instead of the culture survey, why don’t you just sit around the...
