Jamie Notter Blog
Making Culture Work (White Paper)
It wasn't easy to boil down the topic of organizational culture change into a 42-page, ten-chapter ebook, but I am quite happy with the results. The Ebook covers the basics, from defining culture in a clear way, to articulating different approaches for changing...
Innovating Organizational Structure (Friday Quote)
In Humanize, we mention W.L. Gore & Associates (the makers of Gore-tex) several times, because they are a shining example of management innovation. In Chapter 3 we talk about their structure and the fact that they have only two titles--leader and associate--and...
Cracking the Culture Code: Language
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, CEO of the National Fluid Power Association How do association executives build and sustain the culture of their organizations? Specifically, what is the CEO's role versus others in the organization's hierarchy? Conventional...
Test the Strength of Your Culture
Update: we do culture analytics/consulting differently now, but I'm an internet early-adopter at heart, so I couldn't bear to delete the post! I am releasing today a new "Culture Strength Test," that you can take online, for free. This is by no means a full culture...
Last Chance for Free Culture Ebook
Download the Snippet app on your iPad or iPhone, and you can get my ebook, Culture that Works, for free as the featured snippet of the week. But time's running out, so do it this weekend!
The Secret to Better Leadership
I attended a session this week about leadership development in the association world. We talked about different leadership styles, and the need to adapt your style to fit the context, and then we talked about leadership development programs for volunteers. The...
Every Answer Has a Down Side
Wyatt Jenkins, a VP at Shuttestock, wrote a great HBR blog post about A/B testing and creating a culture of experimentation. In it, he makes an important point that is not made enough in all the books and blog posts that are promoting new and better ways to lead and...
Culture Ebook is Free this Week
So if you've been thinking about getting my ebook on Culture, now is the time! Snippet is making Culture that Works the featured Snippet this week, which means you can download it FOR FREE. This does require you to have an iPhone or an iPad, and to download the...
One of My Favorite Consulting Questions
"So how does that show up here?" I ask this one all the time. People tell me about things that are either good or bad in their workplaces in the course of my consulting, but the descriptions are fairly broad. They are at the concept level. Things like, people have a...