Jamie Notter Blog
An Open Letter to Human Resources
Dear Human Resources Field, I’ve been struggling with how to say this in the most supportive and effective way possible (because I do love you), but after a seemingly endless stream of imperfect drafts that I have deleted, I’ve decided to just blurt it out: I’m done...
Friday Quote: Being Honest About What We Don’t Know
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some vocal push-back on these points. There are a lot...
Re-Thinking the Employee-Employer Contract
There's another stellar article in the June HBR (posts here and here are about the other good one). This one is about the new employer-employee contract (check out this site). I hear a fair amount of complaints about the decline in employee loyalty. Nobody stays at a...
Harnessing the Power of Social Business (Slides)
Below are the slides (with some notes) from the presentation I made this week at the Associations Forum National Conference in Sydney, Australia (okay, I wasn't there in person, but I made the presentation via Skype). I set the stage for several other panelists who...
Clarity. By the Minute.
I hope you've seen the blog post that I wrote last Friday over on the Clarity.fm website. It's titled "Create a Culture that Drives Success, Not One that Makes You Feel Good." The founder of Clarity asked me to do a post for them, and I was happy to continue to flesh...
Working out Loud: Learning from Eric Lanke
If you don't know Eric Lanke, you should. He's the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he writes on the best CEO-authored blogs out there. I've known him for several years now, and take some pride in helping him get his...
Friday Quote: Experimentation and Innovation
I've been thinking a lot about experimentation this week (see my two posts yesterday, one here and one on socialfish), so today's Humanize quote is from Chapter 9: How to Be Courageous, from the section on experimentation (p. 232): The processes and systems that you...
The Connection between Strategy and Operations
In Monday's post I talked about Rita Gunther McGrath's HBR article on Transient Advantage. She suggests that in today's fast-paced, ever-changing world, companies should not be looking for a sustained competitive advantage, but should instead be developing a portfolio...
Harnessing the Power of Social Business
Next week I am speaking at an Australian Association Conference. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean I'll be in Australia (though for the record, I am still trying to make that happen sometime in the next year!). I'll be speaking (via the magic of the internet) at the...