Jamie Notter Blog
Trust and Communication
I'm speaking about trust tomorrow, so I plan on a few more blog posts on the topic, but this is just a quick reflection on a post from my new favorite blog, Ben's Blog, from Ben Horowitz, a venture capitalist. The title of his post is "CEOs Should Tell it...
Book Review: The Truth About Leadership
Given my attraction to both issues of truth and leadership, I couldn't resist getting this book on my iPad, though, in fact, Kouzes and Posner are established leadership authors, and their book from the 1980s, The Leadership Challenge, was always one of my...
Millennials: Entitled or Risk Takers?
When I talk about generational differences, I try to distinguish between the real stuff and the "hype." The hype is always judgmental, typically focuses on the negative, and usually blames a particular generation for being the source of a problem in the...
A Different Take on Strategy
Strategy is a concept that I love, but at the same time it really bugs me. It's a seemingly simple idea (we all have an intuitive sense of what being strategic is), and we have all talked it to death when it comes to organizations and strategic planning, yet for...
What I’m Reading
Okay, so I really don't do a regular "what I'm reading" post on this blog, for a couple of reasons. First, the stuff that I really love that I read on the internet tends to make its way into my blog posts (and I link to them there). Second, I...
What I'm Reading
Okay, so I really don't do a regular "what I'm reading" post on this blog, for a couple of reasons. First, the stuff that I really love that I read on the internet tends to make its way into my blog posts (and I link to them there). Second, I...
Systems Thinking and Organizational Culture
Peter Senge wrote the Fifth Discipline twenty years ago, but it's a book with amazing staying power. If you haven't read it, you should. The big lesson in the book, for which Senge is still known, is systems thinking (system thinking is the fifth discipline)....
Book Tour: Open Community
Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant published their first book this week. W00t! It's called Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web. They gave me an advance copy and even put a quote from me in the "praise for Open...
GrowSmartBiz Conference This Friday
Finally being home after several weeks of heavy travel, it's going to be hard to pry myself out of the office this Friday, but I am trying to make it to the GrowSmartBiz conference. It's being sponsored by the Washington Business Journal and Network Solutions,...