Jamie Notter Blog
Sales v. Marketing
HBR’s summer issue is about sales—not really the focus of my work. But there was a good one about stopping the “war” between the sales and marketing departments. I like this one, because even if your organization doesn’t HAVE both sales and marketing departments, it’s...
Always Done It That Way
My apologies to regular readers of the Association Renewal Blog (since I just announced this over there), but I want everyone to know that we have finished writing the "Always Done It That Way" book. If you remember, four colleagues (Jeff De Cagna, David...
Conflict in Boston
A reminder to everyone that I am speaking at the upcoming ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership Annual Meeting in Boston. I can't believe that it's just over a month away. My session is titled "Overcoming Your Association's Fear of Conflict." This...
Boston Blog
As if I don’t have enough to do, I’ve agreed to be an author for ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s annual meeting blog this year, which is in Boston (where I was born and grew up, by the way). I wrote for last year’s annual meeting blog in Nashville,...
Happy at Work
I’m posting a lot about generational differences on the Association Renewal Blog, particularly from the recent talk I heard by Arthur Brooks, who wrote the Smith Institute report on generational differences and associations. There’s one important point I wanted to...
Give it Away
Pfeffer's column in Business 2.0 talks about the cost of turnover. The cost of recruiting, training, and adjusting to new employees is huge. So if you invest in keeping what you have, you can save money in the long run. In the example he cites, a consulting firm...
Perfect Group Size
Check out this brief post on the Signals v Noise blog. It cites the work of Edward Hall, who claims that the "perfect" group size is about 8-12. If you need more people than that, then your task is too complex and should be broken down further. Part of his...
Synthesis
I know I just posted about it, but I’m very impressed with the quality of what’s going up on the new blog from ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership (called Acronym). Guest blogger Ben Martin even referenced my post about the power of trust. His post talks...
What does ACRONYM Stand for?
Congratulations to ASAE & The Center for launching their own blog, under the title "Acronym." It's great to have another blog voice in the association community (hey, does this mean we have graduated and moved beyond a mere "blogoclump"?). Also...