Jamie Notter Blog
Power of Trust
I found this interesting post on the signal v noise blog about trust. They had to choose a designer for a project they were working on, and it turns out the deciding factor among three talented designers was trust. Not price. Not physical location of the designer....
Ignoring the Truth
I'm really enjoying Don Moyer's piece on the last page of HBR each month. This month it is about "fitting facts" to fit your view of the world and what works. He paraphrases an idea from Sydney Finkelstein's book, Why Smart Executives Fail (pretty good...
Overachievers
Ben Martin at the CAE Blog recently put out an idea and invited those of us writing the "We've Always Done It That Way" blog to expand upon it. I took the challenge and wrote a post about the tendency in associations to focus on the ends and ignore the...
Conflict, Trust, and Teams
In the Forethought section of this month’s Harvard Business Review, there’s a nice piece about conflict in teams. Its basic message seems identical, actually, to the message in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, although this is based in a research study....
Conflict Costs Billions
Thanks to Hallely Azulay of Talentgrow for pointing me to this article about the cost of conflict in organizations. An alternative dispute resolution company in Europe did some research to try to quantify how much conflict costs businesses, and they came up with the...
Starting versus Stopping
Please check out this great post on the Fast Company blog about the power of starting new behavior, rather than trying to stop old behavior. Here's a snippet:One place this idea can be important is in changing one's management style. Often I have clients who are...
The Only Acceptable Way
There’s another story in Fast Company this month about two leaders who did a massive turnaround at an advertising company. One of the leaders was shocked to find that the rising stars in the organization not only didn’t work together much—some of them hadn’t met each...
The New American Workplace
In 1973 the government issued a report on “Work in America,” that was apparently “explosive” in reporting the alienation of blue collar workers and the “search by women for a new identity,” according to an article in Fast Company magazine. One of the people that...
Always Done It That Way
I've mentioned this before, but I'm one of five authors of a book we have titled, We've Always Done It That Way: 101 Things We Must Change About Associations. We've been writing the book "publically", by posting our 101 things onto a blog as we write them. I...