Jamie Notter Blog
Why Aren't You a "Best Place to Work?"
I read in Forbes about a new list out of the best places to work, and this one is from Glassdoor. Unlike some of the other lists, where the companies actually apply to be on the list, this one is a big survey of employees across lots of companies (500,000 people...
Performance Management
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way--still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews--like these articles in the New York Times, the Wall...
The Valve Handbook
Valve is a computer software company that's on my list to research more, because it definitely exhibits "humanize" tendencies. It's received a lot of attention for its new employee handbook, which is not the traditional, dry list of policies and procedures. In fact,...
What Makes Women Great Leaders
The headline in the email from smartbrief captured my attention: 6 Reasons that Women Make Great Leaders Congratulations to marketer who wrote that subject line! It got me to open the email and click on the article. The article, however, has me shaking my head a bit...
The Hero is You
The very first words in our book Humanize are from the character Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. In the movie, the irony to which he refers is...
Book Review: Social Media ROI
Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization by Olivier Blanchard Thankfully, the debate about whether or not social media is a “fad” is fading away, so now we can really focus on how social media is changing the way we work in...
Good Advice Isn't Easy
Maddie and I did a webinar yesterday along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. We love using NTEN as a case study of a human organization, and during the conversation, Amy was talking about NTEN's values, including their "we walk the talk" value, which is really about...
Webinar: How to Humanize Your Nonprofit
I was going to blog about next week's FREE Avectra webinar on how to Humanize your nonprofit (featuring not only me and Maddie, but also Amy Sample Ward from one of our favorite, and most human, organizations: NTEN)... but Maddie beat me to it. Go read all the details...
Why Management Doesn’t Change
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article--from 12 years ago no less--that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an article I need to read. Actually, I was kind of hoping...