Jamie Notter Blog
Fire Two-Thirds of Your Employees
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, so these data are nothing to sneeze at. Okay, I...
Let's Start with Human Resources
In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I'll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, and I'm excited to be bringing the humanize...
Book Review: Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus by Michael Roberto Wharton School Publishing, 2005 Although the words are not in the title, this is a book about decision making. As a researcher, Michael Roberto explored some very...
Different Kinds of Innovation
Here's another bit of content from my client presentation about innovation earlier this week. Yesterday I gave you my simple definition of innovation. After the definition, I talked about three different kinds of innovation. I think it's important that we recognize...
What is Innovation?
I facilitated a staff retreat for a department within a larger association yesterday, and they asked me to talk to them about innovation. So instead of borrowing a definition of innovation from one of the many innovation experts out there, I decided to invent my own...
One Month to Go: Please Give
In one month I will be dropped in Pittsburgh, PA with my bike, and I will have to ride home. Three hundred miles over four days. I do this ride almost every year, and part of the ride is raising money for a charity called Operation Second Chance. OSC makes a real...
Taking "High Performance" Seriously
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points they make about their culture ("Values are what...
Everyone Should Know What’s Valued
I am writing an article about re-thinking new employee orientation, and I came across something interesting at Zappos. I think everyone knows that Zappos and CEO Tony Hsieh (pronounced "shay" I am told) are frequently held up as role models when it comes to...
A Communication Architecture
From Ben Horowitz: Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meetings, processes, email, yammer and even...