Jamie Notter Blog
Being Something to Everybody
Associations have a soft spot for wanting to make people happy. One of the mistakes we frequently make, since we all have diverse membership bases, is trying to please everyone. Trying to be everything to everyone. This is typically hard to sustain strategically. You...
The Hard work of Patience
I've written a lot about truth lately--maybe I should also write about "patience," because patience, like truth, it is one of those words that tends to have fairly complex meaning to people--yet everyone defines it differently. This was evidenced by the...
Strategic Moves
One of my favorite business books of the past few years is Blue Ocean Strategy, by Kim and Mauborgne. The book documents businesses who went in bold new strategic directions in order to create "blue ocean" spaces (as in, no one else is around, so there is no...
Best Conflict Resolution Tool Ever: Ladder of Inference
Two of my very favorite people and thinkers about things organizational are Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen. Together they to the "talent anarchy" blog, and their most recent conversation has been about conflict. Jason's last post is particularly awesome, and in it...
Key to Managing Conflict: Shared Language
I was delivering a conflict resolution training program the other day, and one of the participants told me that she absolutely hated conflict. There are lots of people in this boat, of course, but I asked her more about it, and she explained that when people disagree...
The Truth as a Leadership Imperative
I am excited to announce that the article I wrote for Associations Now about Truth is now available online. I was floored when I saw that it was going to be the cover story for June! I don't know when the print issue comes out, but either way, you can read it...
The Future Is Now
Did anyone out there remember buying or reading Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations that Could Transform Your association? It was a book put out by ASAE and the ASAE Foundation and written by Robert Olson and Atul Dighe way back in 2001. That's...
Happiness Isn’t the Right Metric
At dinner the other night a colleague implied that money is rarely the reason people leave jobs--if they were happier at their current job, they wouldn't be looking around, or at least they would feel more satisfied with their current salary.I agree that...
Happiness Isn't the Right Metric
At dinner the other night a colleague implied that money is rarely the reason people leave jobs--if they were happier at their current job, they wouldn't be looking around, or at least they would feel more satisfied with their current salary.I agree that...