Jamie Notter Blog
Choices (Guest Post)
Please read this poem, and when you're done I have some questions for you. Choices As I grew up I started to learn When I was older I learned to imagine I imagined a hero But with it a demon The demon destroyed But there was still hope For the hero was there to help,...
I Need Your Help
Or, more accurately, a group of soldiers, wounded in battle, need your help. If you know me, you know that every fall I ride 300 miles from Pittsburgh back home to the DC area. The four-day ride started out as purely recreational, but several years ago we picked up a...
Best Practices Are Evil (Friday Quote)
That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): "There is just one problem. Best practices are evil." To be honest, I think most people skip over the page-and-a-half that explains it, because it's just...
New Coaching Program for Stronger Cultures
One of our biggest challenges when it comes to building a strong and powerful culture is the fact that no one has "build a strong and powerful culture" in their job description. And, frankly, if you do have something to that effect in your job description, it usually...
Are CEOs “Getting It” Before the Rest of Us?
Get a copy of IBM's recent report on research they did with CEOs (hat tip to SmartBrief for pointing me there). I promise to do some more specific blog posts about it, because it has some important material in there, but I'll just start with a collection of the...
Our Biggest Challenge is Decentralization
I just finished reading the new white paper that Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman have put out about "mission-driven volunteers," and it's fabulous. The paper makes a compelling case why the current model for volunteering in most associations is broken, and then...
Survey Says: Only 5% Have Amazing Cultures
A few months ago I gathered a little bit of data from readers (and webinar attendees) about organizational cultures. My hypothesis was that most organizations didn't do culture very well. Anecdotally, I hear a lot of people complain about their cultures. They put up...
Diversity and Innovation (Friday Quote)
In Monday's post, I reflected about the ASAE Annual Meeting and how some of the sub-communities seemed to be operating in separate circles. My underlying concern in that post is that we're eliminating a critical component in our broader community by staying separate...
What’s the Value of Reporting Relationships?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? Or have you simply taken it all for granted? Why do we have them in our organizations? What's their purpose? What value do they bring to the organization? Those aren't purely rhetorical questions. I'm not implying that...