Jamie Notter Blog
Diversity for White People
I've been witness to a couple of interesting conversations about diversity within the association community in the last week. First, in an online community, one member shared a Huffington Post article about "angry white men," for discussion, and there were a few white...
Thinking Like A Business Is Not Optional
Last week I attended the first, annual Association Chief Executives Symposium, put on by Shira Harrington and Jeff De Cagna. I really enjoyed the day-long conversation among association CEOs and senior staff (Jeff and Shira invited me as one of the facilitators). At...
Recognizing that You Suck
How often does a CEO write a public blog post admitting that he sucks? That's what Greg Hoy, CEO of Happy Cog, did over on Medium recently. More specifically, he admitted that he had been avoiding his own performance review for some time at his organization, and when...
Is Social Business Dead?
Maddie pointed me to this great post by Stowe Boyd on the GigaOm blog, which is in reaction to this great post by Chris Heuer over on Brian Solis' blog. They are both fairly long posts, but here's the gist. Chris Heuer declares the term "social business" dead. He says...
The Four Pillars of the CEO Job
With the exception of Jeff De Cagna's comment and Mark Athitakis' post over at Associations Now, I haven't seen anyone answer my question from last week: What is the job of the CEO? I'd still like to hear what people think, though I do predict that answers will be all...
The Fallacy of Individual Leadership (Friday Quote)
To complete my impromptu CEO theme of this week, today's Humanize quote comes from Chapter 3, where we document the failures of modern management. Specifically, we take on 3 "best practices" in the management field: strategic planning, human resource management, and...
The Downside of CEO Experience
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday's post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan Management Review about the "CEO Experience...
What is the Job of the CEO?
That's not a rhetorical question. I'd like some feedback here (i.e., please comment). What, exactly, is the job of the CEO in an organization? I rarely hear it articulated, other than being "the boss" or "in charge." I know there is an obvious "it depends" part of the...
Management Is Generating Diminishing Returns
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors' Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their "Innovation Stage" to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My (very short) slide deck is embedded below (or...