Jamie Notter Blog
What Generation is Your Organizational Culture?
This was an insight that I was able to articulate at my recent generational diversity training. As I was going over the four generations in the workplace, I found myself almost feeling a bit guilty about talking too much about the Silent Generation (the oldest in the...
Social Organization Posts on SocialFishing
In case any of you didn't realize it, I do a regular monthly blog post on the world famous Socialfishing blog. The title of my column is "the social organization," and I write about the intersection of social media with leadership, management, and...
Making Collaboration Real
Ask a random person on the street, and they'll support collaboration. Of course it's a good idea when people get together to work on something, solve a problem, help each other out. I'll go out on a limb and suggest that you, reading this post, agree that...
Conflict Resolution Tip: Be Forgiving When They Get It Wrong
Here's a quick tip for working through conflict situations: be forgiving of the other party when they do things wrong. Let them get the facts wrong. Let them suggest that your intentions are one way, when you know they are another. Let them base their conclusion...
Learning at Blog World (#bwe10)
This past weekend I had the opportunity to actually ATTEND a conference, rather than go as a speaker or to network as part of a business development strategy. I went to Blog World Expo in Las Vegas simply to learn. I am a blogger, after all. I got to wander the expo...
The (Dangerous) Focus on Individuals
It's almost election time, which means I am now being pitched left and right (so to speak) about which candidate I should elect. Which individual I should send to Washington (or Annapolis, etc.) who will either turn things around or continue us on our path, blah,...
Ride Allegheny Begins
Thanks to EVERYONE who has donated money to support Operation Second Chance, the charity we ride for every year on Ride Allegheny. If you missed it, here's the post where I give the background and also a link to a moving video about the great work OSC does for...
USAirways: Can I Get You Some Epic With That #Fail?
I am usually pretty patient with airlines. I'm patient with delays and waiting for crews to come in from a different flight, etc. Heck, I'd even be patient if they waited a few minutes to let connecting passengers get on my flight (because in many other instances, I'm...
“Not Withering” is not the same as “Flourishing”
I'm not sure I want to dredge up the whole "relevance" debate, but this post from CV Harquail makes some really good points that I think better explains some of what I was trying to say by moving "beyond relevance." Here's a quote:...