Jamie Notter Blog
Ignoring the Impossible
In December, the cover of Harvard Business Review invited readers in to Gary Hamel's feature article with the headline "Inside the World's Most Creatively Managed Company." This was an interesting headline, given that the real title of the article was "First, Let's...
The Strength of Weak Ties
Check out this great interview with Andrew McAfee of MIT's Center for Digital Business on how to talk to CEOs about social media. He's got some great tips (like why you shouldn't use the word "social"...interesting), but what I like most was his conversation about...
Humanize "Must Reads" on Pinterest
Have you heard the buzz about Pinterest yet? It's one of those new social sites that will either be the next big thing or something nobody remembers in six months. But it is a nice interface, and it turns out to be a great way for me to do something that has been on...
Start by Looking Inside
Edelman's Annual "Trust Barometer" report is out. Maddie broke the news on SocialFishing, pointing out that trust in CEOs dropped precipitously (50% last year; 38% this year), where trust in the "regular employee" was up by a similar margin (34% last year to 50% this...
Public Discourse on Humanize
At one level, getting a book published is a fairly scripted process. You write it, you publicize the heck out of it, you speak on it, and, if all goes well, a bunch of people buy it. Thousands of authors/publishers do this (in roughly the same way) every single year....
Shaking Up Patterns
This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown's Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. I went through this program 11 years ago myself (though it didn't have the "change leadership" moniker back then). I...
Humanize and the Millennial Generation
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about an inherent paradox in the conversation about generational differences. The differences we see among generations are both true at the big picture level AND irrelevant at the individual level. Every generation possesses significant...
Conflict and Decision Making
There is an article in the Volunteer Leadership issue of Associations Now titled, "Balanced Conflict, Better Decisions." The conclusions in the article concern me. I'm paraphrasing here, but the article says: "Cognitive" conflict is about contradictory perspectives,...
Generations and Paradox
During a Twitter chat last week, I had some back and forth with a couple of people on the topic of generational differences. The conversation was focused on the Humanize book, and the initial question was whether the Millennial generation is more likely to embrace...