Jamie Notter Blog
The Shift from Push to Pull
I'm making my way through McKinsey's study about adoption of social technologies in the workplace. The study suggests we can find a 20% increase in proeductivity if we adopt these technologies (particularly in large organizations). One way to get this increase will be...
Read This If You Get My Blog via RSS
Do you read this blog (generally) in an RSS reader (like Google Reader, for instance)? If you do, then I need you to make sure you have the correct feed. Apparently Feedburner is going away. I've been using Feedburner for my RSS feed since the early days, and I...
Better Work Starts with Better Schools
A couple of times over the last few months, people have asked me whether we tackle the topic of education in Humanize. We don't, specifically, but I get where the question is coming from. We argue in Humanize that shifting from a mechanical view to a more human view...
Example of a Humanized Culture
I am a fan of Netflix. I even stood by them when they tried to spin off the DVD business and pissed everybody off (okay, they didn't communciate well on that one, but I still like the strategic move). But now I love them even more, because I came across this slideshow...
Organizational Structure Is Imaginary
I received this question via Twitter last night: It's a good question. Decentralization certainly sounds like a structural issue, and that is a part of it. But I put more of it into culture. In Humanize, decentralization is the cultural part of being Open (Chapter 6)....
The Change Portfolio
I'm reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance, by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking about organizations. A colleague suggested to me...
Be Intentional
I did a session at the ASAE annual meeting last week. I co-presented a "Conversations that Matter" session along with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive who is actually implementing the ideas from Humanize in a very clear and...
Why are you running a race with weights on your ankles?
Last week I did a keynote address for the summer conference of Goodwill Industries, and in my presentations these days, fairly early on I suggest that we have a significant problem in our organizations today: Management is failing. Yes. It's failing. The way we run...
What Chains Do You Revere?
My friend Olivier Blanchard posted this quote on Facebook the other day: That's a beautiful quote. And in case you're wondering, the real application of this quote is not in you feeling superior to all those fools who revere their chains. It's in figuring out what...