Jamie Notter Blog
If We Are Going to Mock Strategic Planning, Let's Mock Committees Too
I just posted on the Association Renewal blog a discussion about the repeated mocking of strategic planning that ASAE & The Center have done at their Annual Meetings lately. But I think the funniest part of this meeting was the mocking of committees. The...
If We Are Going to Mock Strategic Planning, Let’s Mock Committees Too
I just posted on the Association Renewal blog a discussion about the repeated mocking of strategic planning that ASAE & The Center have done at their Annual Meetings lately. But I think the funniest part of this meeting was the mocking of committees. The...
Trust and Behavior
It is the “day after” the annual meeting of ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership. This is a regular event for me, and I absolutely love attending it, although as an introvert it completely exhausts me! I learned a lot this year, and I’ll post more about it...
Summer Reading List
The Tom Peters blog pointed me to a post listing THE top 5 books executives should read. I’ve got three down, two to go.
Set Up to Fail
I just posted over on the Always Done It That Way blog about an HBR article that talks about the “middle term” time horizon. I posted over there, because it ties in directly with the post from the book that I wrote about Middle Level Thinking (which happened to be my...
New Article on Generational Diversity
I just had another article on Generations published—this time in Cooperative Housing Bulletin, a newsletter put out by the National Association of Housing Cooperatives. It draws heavily, as you might imagine, from the work I put into my e-book on this subject, but it...
The Toyota Way
There is an interview in HBR with Katsuaki Watanabe, who is the head of Toyota. Toyota is about to become the #1 car company in the world (in March of 2007 Toyota had a profit of $13.7 billion, compared to GM’s los of $1.97 billion and Ford’s loss of $12.61 billion)....
Who Takes the Credit for the Evaluation Results?
For those of you out there who hire speakers for your events, I found an interesting post by Shel Israel (author, with Robert Scoble, of Naked Conversations) about how HIS success as a keynote speaker was in large part attributable to the way the organization laid the...
Strauss and Howe in HBR
I am glad to see that William Strauss and Neil Howe have an article about generations in the current Harvard Business Review. I’ve always felt their book, Generations, was the best on this topic—but it was also quite “old” (published in 1991). They hadn’t even named...