Jamie Notter Blog
Friday Quote: Values Should be about Clarity
I'm starting a new feature of the blog: the Friday Quote. I'm going to pick a short quote from Humanize or a book that I am reading that connects to what I have been working on that week, and share it with the hopes of sparking some reflection as you head off to the...
Five Tips for a Stronger Culture
Below are the slides from a keynote I did last week. I pulled out five lessons from the Humanize book that I think are most relevant to creating a stronger culture: Decentralization Transparency Systems Thinking Ownership, and Experimentation. But remember, just...
Thank a Teacher
The past two days I've been immersed in graduations. My oldest daughter graduated high school, and my youngest daughter graduated middle school. For each of them, they've been at their particular schools for quite a few years now. I watched them march across their...
Social Business Grows in Importance
So MIT and Deloitte have done a repeat of their 2012 report on Social Business (that I cite frequently in my Humanize keynotes). They aren't releasing the full 2013 report until July, but they did a blog post teaser. The big (though not surprising) news: social is...
The Elephant in the Room: Culture [Guest Post]
[Below is my first guest post ever on this blog! It is an honor (honour?) I give to Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive in Australia that has put a lot of time, energy, and effort into strengthening the culture at his association, as...
More on Rethinking Management
Some consultants in the UK sent me a copy of their white paper entitled "Unleashing the Future of Work." I'm always happy to find kindred spirits, which was immediately apparent in this case, since the first line of the paper is "It's time to re-think management." I...
It’s Good to Be Unsettled
I facilitated an all-day strategy session with a Board of Directors yesterday, and the group did very well in clarifying its strategic choices. At the end, one of the participants said he was feeling a little "unsettled" by the conversation. I think this is a...
Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce
Below are my slides from my recent keynote on generations (click here if you can't see the embedded slides). Check it out.
Is Focusing on Hours a Generational Thing?
This is not a rhetorical question--I am openly wondering about this topic these days. I'm reading Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, advocates for the "Results Only Work Environment." They talk a lot about how deeply ingrained our...