Jamie Notter Blog
Machine Thinking Isn’t All Bad
I delivered the day 2 keynote address at Avectra's AUDC conference last week. It was the first time I delivered this particular keynote--I've integrated some of the more recent research on social business into the points I have been making about Humanize over the last...
It’s Time for a Change
I am seeing a window of opportunity for organizations today, and for the people who lead them. There is a shift happening right now in leadership and management, away from traditional command and control, and towards a more social business. But at this point, we're...
The Dark Side of the Revolution
I spent yesterday at a fabulous conference--xPotomac (formerly Blog Potomac), which focuses on social media and new technologies for mostly marketing and PR folks. It was a great event: limited in number of attendees, with speakers who spent as much time doing Q&A...
Window of Opportunity
This week I had the great pleasure of being a very active part of the TalentCulture community. On Tuesday, I was the guest on the BlogTalkRadio show hosted by Kevin Grossman and Meghan Biro, and on Wednesday I was the moderator of the weekly #TChat twitter chat. In...
7 Tips for (Seriously) Humanizing Your Brand
I am growing weary of the multitude of posts out there talking about humanizing your brand, but it's not because they're using the word humanize (Maddie and I don't claim to own that term in any way). There are two main reasons these posts are bugging me. First of...
Good for Owners, Bad for Humans
So I got more than a couple of tweets and emails from friends the other day who noticed a post on Seth Godin's blog, called "Humanize It." Their first suggestion, of course, was that we send him a book. (For the record, we already had sent him one, though I have no...
Strong Cultures Perform Better
I like this brief report from some McKinsey consultants (who have written a pretty good book too). The first conclusion in the study is one that is not new, but still bears repeating: culture matters. I love this selection of quotes they choose: “Fixing culture is the...
The Limits of Being Inside
I was reading an HBR blog post from Eric Hellweg about a panel he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It was focused on the future of education. This isn't particularly my field, so I almost skipped it, but he did mention in the title of the post that it...
Trust. Again. (Looking at you, leaders)
Edelman's annual Trust survey is out. Some of the numbers actually went up this year, but as in previous years, they are basically describing a trust "crisis." The numbers vary by country and by industry, but there's enough consistent bad news to leave us (once again)...