Jamie Notter Blog

Let's say you're on the beach building a sand castle. It's a nice sunny day, and you build quite a masterpiece with towers and moats and walls (heck, it can have a working drawbridge for all I care, because this is just a metaphor after all). Then a big wave comes in...

This is the last in my series of six "Exploring Humanize" blog posts where I go over the basic content in the book. If you missed the previous ones, just go to the Humanize category and you can scan through them all. And if you're ready to buy the book, it's available...

When Maddie and I did an informal talk on the book back in August (before we were done editing!), one of the participants asked us to elaborate on what it means to be "generative." Of the four human elements in our trellis, this one was the least familiar, apparently....

The second element in our Trellis for human organizations is trustworthy. It's unfortunately not a word we associate with organizations too frequently. Over the years, I think we've given up. We expect organizations to spin us, to withhold information, to be...

The first human element we dig into is "open," which is the focus of chapter 6. We started with open because we think it has always been the foundation of social media's power. Social media took what was closed and made it open. It was decentralized, it gave power to...

The thesis of our book is that organizations need to be more human. Social media has been succeeding very specifically because it taps into what makes us human, and our organizations seem very stuck in a machine-based worldview that is letting us down. So we...

This is the first in a series of posts about the new book that Maddie Grant and I wrote, Humanize. I'll be writing an "Exploring Humanize" post every day for the next week as part of the launch. Enjoy! One of the main reasons Maddie and I wrote the book, Humanize, is...