Jamie Notter Blog
Book Review: Solving Tough Problems
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities by Adam Kahane (Berrett-Keohler, 2004) Adam Kahane was one of several incredibly smart and now famous people who worked for Royal Dutch Shell and developed the process known as...
What Leadership Looks Like in Human Organizations
In nearly every presentation I give about Humanize, a question comes up about whether or not these changes I'm talking about need to start from the top. I certainly see the value of a "sponsor" at the executive level, but as I've said previously, I don't want to let...
Change Trumps Technology
Read this blog post by Tonia Ries. She cites a study by Capgemini Consulting and MIT that examines the relative profitability and performance of organizations based on two dimensions: "digital intensity," and "transformational management intensity." Digital intensity...
Rigorous Decision Making
Google has a cool online publication called Think Quarterly. The current issue is about Open, which obviously gets my attention, given that one of the four human elements we identify in Humanize is Open. Senior Google exec Jonathan Rosenberg has the first article,...
The New Face of Leadership
Fast Company Magazine, believe it or not, has been around for almost 20 years. It was founded in 1995 by Bill Taylor and Alan Webber (who were previously editors at Harvard Business Review). I remember when I was doing my graduate work in Organization Development at...
Training Program on Humanize for Nonprofits
Maddie and I are offering our first extensive training program for organizations on how to implement the ideas in Humanize, starting this January. We're teaming up with NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network), which happens to be one of the most human organizations we...
Disrupt or Be Disrupted. Pick One.
Nearly two years ago, my friend Jeff De Cagna wrote a series of posts for ASAE's blog (remember Acronym!?) about Umair Haque's book, The New Capitalist Manifesto. Jeff started the series with a point about disruption. Apparently that's the question Umair will ask a...
Making "What is" Visible
So I am back from my whirlwind, three-city tour last week (Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago), which explains my lack of blogging. I had a fabulous time at three very different events. Monday I was speaking at the Organization Development Network's annual meeting. These are...
Thanks to All Who Donated
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who donated to support Ride Allegheny this year. As I announced several times on this blog, I've been doing this ride for 10 years, and for the last five or six we've been raising money for a great cause: Operation Second...