Jamie Notter Blog
Fear Sucks
Permit me to sound like a keynote speaker for a minute... If there's ONE THING you remember from this blog post it's this: (dramatic pause...) the reason your organization sucks, is fear. I write about a lot of things. I talk about truth, conflict, leadership,...
Strategy is Personal
I did some strategy work for an association client last week, and to start off the session, I asked the board members in their introductions to share what volunteering really meant to them. Why did it matter? Why was it personally important?There are a couple of...
Pushing the Edge of the Envelope at #ASAE10
My first ASAE annual meeting was Minneapolis in 2004. I registered so late I was out of the room block. I only knew a handful of people in the community, most of whom I met through GWSAE. I had a good time, but it was laid back, calm, with a fair amount of down...
Managing Generations Slides
Thanks to everyone at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida for coming out to my "Managing Generations in the Workplace" session. As a reminder, the ebook on generations can be downloaded for free, and the slides are presented below, via slideshare. Managing...
Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of them are broken. It's time to create new...
Creating Tomorrow's Organizations
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of them are broken. It's time to create new...
Capacity for Solving Problems
My speaking schedule brought me through Omaha, Nebraska yesterday, which afforded me the great luxury of some face time with Joe Gerstandt. We had no agenda, but spent the morning quite productively talking about all things leadership. One of the insights from...
Why Diversity Issues Are Hard
Last week Elizabeth Engel put up a very short post about a new TED conference focused on women, expressing her displeasure with "ghettoizing" women by creating a separate conference. The post then became one of the most "comment-worthy" in the...
The Value (?) of Objectivity
I am speaking to an association in Iowa next week on leadership, and a couple of the themes I'll be talking about are (a) how fast things change these days, and, somewhat related, (b) how social media is changing the game in general. And it's not about...