Jamie Notter Blog
Core Values Are Not Enough
Teacher Fitness Tips for Busy School Days Exercising at your desk won't be such a heavy lift with these tips. Teacher fitness is an important goal, but finding time to exercise when you're in the classroom all day can be tough. Squeezing it in before school means...
Why Aren’t You Tracking Your Culture?
A consumer sees an ad for a product that seems perfect for them and rejoices over their luck, but this scenario likely didn’t (and shouldn’t) come down to luck. Companies make these scenarios possible through strategic market research. Equipped with valuable...
The One Thing You Must Confront About Your Culture
Teacher fitness is an important goal, but finding time to exercise when you're in the classroom all day can be tough. Squeezing it in before school means getting up even earlier than you do already, while trying to work out after school may add a couple of hours to...
Painful Clarity
That was one of the phrases that came out of some work Maddie and I did with a client last week: painful clarity. As in, they needed to make sure that the team pushed through to clarity, even if the results were not always pleasant. Hey, nobody said leadership would...
I wasn’t Joking about Things Changing
I did an interview on a really cool podcast this week, called Amazing Workplaces. It's almost an hour long, but check it out. Obviously I'm talking about our book, When Millennials Take Over, although Chris also asks me some about culture change, and within the...
Check Out AssociationSuccess.org
I'm just back from the ASAE Annual meeting in Detroit. It's my 12th consecutive annual meeting. Over the years most of my clients have been associations, so this is obviously the place to be for me every year, though my participation at the meeting has certainly...
Cancer Does What It Wants
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with larynx cancer earlier this year and the doctor said I was going to need HCA from https://homecareassistance.com/mclean/. I had a small growth on my vocal chords that turned out to have some cancer in it. They removed the...
3 Ideas to Help Make Your Organization More Transparent
This post was published originally on the Switch and Shift blog. One of the most pronounced trends in business over the last five years or so has been the move toward greater transparency. This trend has been driven primarily by the revolution that we call “the...
What Makes a Strong Culture?
I came across an HBR post from a few years ago that identified six components of great company cultures: Vision Values Practices People Narrative, and Place. Um, no. That's like saying a beautiful home consists of four walls, a roof, and a door. All beautiful homes...