Jamie Notter Blog
Extreme Facilitation, Part 2
I promised a long time ago that I would post some more on the book that a colleague of mine wrote called “Extreme Facilitation.” The author, Suzanne Ghais, did the same graduate program in conflict resolution that I did and she interned at the Institute for...
Silo Busting
There's a nice piece (subscription required) in the "intelligence" section of the March Associations Now by Dale Gaddy of the American Chemical Society about how they avoid "silos" in their organization. Unlike most associations, they have nearly...
Fun with Blog Trafffic
I mentioned before that I love blogs (both reading and writing) because they can so easily and so quickly connect you to things all over the world. For example, in the last few days my blog has been getting lots of visits to the post I did on the HBR article titled...
Leading by Getting Out of the Way
I met with a group of fellow consultants this morning and out of our conversation came an interesting idea:Leaders have more power to keep things from happening than they do to make things happen.I think that is worthy of some reflection.
Shifting Leadership
The new Associations Now magazine has an interesting story about leadership. It covers some research being done by the Center for Creative Leadership (top of the line leadership training outfit in North Carolina). Their research shows that the definition of leadership...
Great Idea
Just got back from the Great Ideas conference in San Diego. It was great fun, as always. Handing out copies of our "We've Always Done it That Way" prototype was fun, and I was pleased with the reaction we were getting from people (at least to the title). One...
Beta Publishing
I've mentioned before that I am working with four other co-authors on a book for the association community titled "We've Always Done It That Way: 101 Things Associations Must Change." As we write pieces of the book, we've been publishing them to a blog. I...
Great Intimidator?
Believe it or not, I found an article in Harvard Business Review that I really hate. It’s not that I have liked every article in there—the ones on supply chains really bore me. Others make points that I don’t think are terribly powerful. But I think this is the first...
Supertrend Discussion
A few years ago, ASAE and The Center started a "leadership book club." I've been involved from the beginning, and I love the sessions. I try to facilitate at least one each cycle. THe program has evolved so it doesn't focus only on books, and it is following...