Jamie Notter Blog
Strategy Means Change
I did some strategy work with a client this week where they were drilling down below the level of core strategic principles and actually figuring out what they were going to do differently to move in their desired direction. I fully admit, I love the big picture stuff...
Want Innovation? Look at Management
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when the people who were advocating for innovation in organizations were considered a bit on the fringe. Maybe they were the technology geeks--because that's where we assumed innovation happened, at the product level. They...
Letting Reality Sink In
I delivered a session on Humanize earlier this week at an event put on by Goodwill Industries. There is one part part of my talk I have titled "management is failing." For those of you who have read the book, that part of the session covers Chapter 3, where we...
Trapped by our own Minds
I've been around the block when it comes to professional speaking. I've seen the tricks of the trade--opening with a joke, dramatic pauses, giving people the "if you only take ONE thing from this talk..." line. But I will say that someone introduced a new one at the...
With Freedom Comes Responsibility
This was one of the key messages from the Mix Mashup that I attended in San Francisco this week. The conference was amazing. I am rarely around so many powerful thinkers. By the end of the day, my brain was exhausted, but in a good way. It was very exciting to be...
Have too much to do? You're doing to much
I found myself giving that advice last week at the ASAE Finance, HR, and Business Operations Conference. I was part of a presentation called "The Adaptive CFO" (along with Charlie Tate of Tate and Tyron and Joe Janela, the CFO at the American Pharmacists Association)...
Getting Ready for the MIX Mashup
Next week, Maddie and I will be in San Francisco for a one-day conference called the MIX Mashup. And this time, we're NOT speaking. We are actually going to attend a conference for a change! But when you see the list of speakers, you'll understand why. Here's a...
Failure versus Mistakes
On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. It was fabulous to present with Amy. She told great stories about how NTEN actually puts into practice a lot of the ideas we express in Humanize. One of the...
Humanizing Business and Helping CFOs with Change
These are the topics of two presentations I'll be giving next week. The first is a session that I'll be doing at BlogWorld Expo in New York City, along with my coauthor Maddie Grant and Amy Ward, who is the Membership Director at the Nonprofit Technology Network...