Jamie Notter Blog
Another Fake Battle: The Open Office Debate
Last April I posted about what I think is a misguided obsession, sometimes, with proof. Well, I'm starting to get bothered again, and this time it is in the context over the debate about the effectiveness of the "open office." According to one article, the open office...
Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business 2014
I am proud to have made it in the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy business for 2014. This list is generated by an organization called Trust Across America-Trust Around the World, and they've been compiling the list for several years now. Apparently this year...
The Fake Battle Between Culture and Strategy
The other day I came across yet another article/post declaring that "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" (or lunch, or dinner, or afternoon tea...). I tweeted it out, copying my friend and colleague, Jeff De Cagna, since he and I have been discussing this topic...
Culture Codes Go Mainstream
Four years ago, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted a slide deck about their culture. It was originally created as an internal document, but he shared it, and it's now been viewed several million times. The deck (and Netfilx's culture) actually get their own chapter in...
There Is No Strategy Without Angst
Roger Martin has a great article in the current Harvard Business Review about how strategic planning is a lie. I think it's great, of course, because I've hated strategic planning for years now, but I think Martin does one of the best jobs so far in concisely...
The Boomers Don’t Dominate the Workforce
In fact, they haven't in a long, long time. This may come as a shock to many, and some of you may forward me links to cool infographics or other blog posts that dispute my claim, so let me explain. I'm talking about sheer numbers of the total U.S. workforce. My...
Marketing Success is Determined by Organizational Culture
Guest Post, by Amanda Kaiser We are all inundated with messages about “new marketing.” Experts tell us to try the new marketing strategies because the old are dead. In fact, just about every marketing tactic is changing: Print versus web Traditional media versus...
Big Data and Leadership and Management
There is an article in the December 2013 issue of the Atlantic titled, "They're Watching You at Work." It's not so much about privacy or spying, as it is about big data, and how that can be applied, not to sales and marketing, but to the work of leadership and...
2013 Year End
Yes, it's the annual year in review post! This has been a year of big change. In March I left my job of the last five years and went back out on my own, and this summer I sold my house of the last 17 years and have been thoroughly enjoying apartment living, before...