Jamie Notter Blog
Associations and Their Ongoing Problems with Strategy
Go out and find a copy of the June Harvard Business Review Magazine (sorry, I know it's old news now, but there must be some out there!). The cover spotlight is on "Strategy for Turbulent Times" and the first article in that section is by Rita Gunther McGrath on...
Vacation
I'm on vacation this week at the beach. So I reserve the right not to publish any more blog posts (this one was pre-scheduled, of course). Or maybe I'll post some non-traditional stuff, who knows? But I'm planning to relax a bit. Maybe not think so much. I hope you...
Friday Quote: The Stability of Culture
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein's work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are taken for granted, cultures are hard to change. In...
Forget the Job Interview, Play a Video Game
Here's a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we're doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt's character was bringing to the Oakland A's...
Healthy Systems – Disability and Health Information for Health Care Providers
People with disabilities face many barriers to good health. Studies mentioned in this official site shows that individuals with disabilities are more likely than people without disabilities to report: Having poorer overall health. Having less access to adequate health...
Become Anti-Fragile
That's a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There's a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors, stressors, and...
Friday Quote: Use Fewer Words If You Want Action
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom's awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says "we trust you. Use your best judgment." You don't have to be as brief as Nordstrom, but your 300...
The Secret is Learning
Give yourself a little bit of time (it's a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the "bossless office" written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the "decentralization" idea that we talk about in Humanize, and he...
You are Responsible for the Culture
I urge everyone to watch this video of General David Morrison of the Australian Army. It's only 3 minutes, and in the video he makes crystal clear his views about sexual harassment in the Australian Army. Apparently there is an investigation going on about some...