Jamie Notter Blog
Change is Not Hard
I have officially grown tired of the excuse that change is hard. Change is not hard. And it's not change that people resist in organizations. As long as we think that, we'll never get better. Here's what people resist: Stupid ideas Being told what to do Things that...
A Different Kind of Vision
In an organizational context, the word "vision" will often score you a point in "buzzword bingo." And that's too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get why it has achieved buzzword bingo status. I...
Using Metrics to Clarify
I have a love/hate relationship with measurement. On one level, I can be frustrated by people who demand we measure everything, as if numbers proved the "truth." Many of the things that are the very most important in life can't be assigned meaningful numbers, and in...
The Feeling of Failure
In Humanize, we talk a lot about courage. Courage is one of the four human elements--arguably the hardest one for organizations to master. Fear has long been at the root of organizational dysfunction. We are arguing that we need more courageous organizations. Ones...
Race and Politics
I was having a good week this week. After some busy travel weeks, I was back in the office getting stuff done. Writing some good blog posts. Facilitating conversations. Mapping out future crazy travel weeks. The usual. Then I ran into a couple of conversations online...
Getting Serious About Collaboration
Collaboration is a bit of a buzzword these days. It is often that magic result we seek as we adopt a new technology solution or try to get employees to play nicely together in the sandbox. It's a feel-good word. We all like it and if we attach the word to whatever...
Bringing Innovation to Life
That's the title from a panel session I helped deliver at the Great Ideas Conference last week. The description from the brochure: People make innovation happen. Ok, but how do they do it? Join us to learn tips and techniques to getting started…investigating ideas and...
The Down-Side of Great Ideas
So I am back from what might be my 11th or 12th Great Ideas conference (I've been to them all, back to the GWSAE days, but I've lost count), and as usual I had a great time. I enjoyed delivering both the deep dive on Humanize (with Maddie Grant) on the first day of...
The Future of Leadership
Sorry to break this to you, but the future of leadership is not about you. That's the title of a guest post I did this week over on the blog of Shawn Murphy and Ted Coine, two outstanding thought leaders in the leadership arena. They did a series on the "Switch and...