Jamie Notter Blog
White Paper: Making Performance Management Work
This year I'm launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I'm launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I'm calling the series "Making It Work," because as much as...
More on Leadership and Social Media
Late last fall, Maddie and I released the results of a survey we did with 500 professionals about the link between social media and leadership. We think there are some interesting data points in there that can help organizations better understand what "social...
Book Review: Winning the Story Wars
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those who Tell--and Live--the Best Stories Will Rule the Future by Jonah Sachs Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Maddie interviewed Jonah Sachs for an NTEN "Meet the Author" webinar, and once she read the book gave it to me with one of...
Correlation versus Causation
My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically significant correlation between a decrease in highway...
Silos and Conflict
People have been complaining about "silos" in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (turf battles, lack of cooperation, poor...
It Is Better to Be Clear than to Be Right
I searched on my blog for the post I wrote about the "hard work of clarity." I thought it would be on the first page or two of results because it must have been recently. Turns out it was from 2009, after the session that Maddie, Lindy, and I did on how social media...
2012 Year End
Time once again for my annual year in review post. This has been a year focused heavily on the Humanize book. We're very pleased to have sold nearly 4,000 copies in the first year of the book, and we look forward to more. I've also been particularly happy with the...
Can We Keep Social Media from Sucking?
Two stories on the internet caught my attention this week. The first was a blog post from Mark Schaefer on the business case for buying facebook likes. Yes, that's the business case FOR buying them. His argument seems to be that whether it makes sense or not, we now...
Bring Your Nonprofit into the 21st Century
Time is running out to be a part of the inaugural "21st Century Nonprofit" program that Maddie and I are doing with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. The program begins in early January, and you need to fill out a brief application in order to be considered. It...