Jamie Notter Blog
Governance Month: "I don't want to be the one who screwed things up"
I have heard this phrase a lot in the context of association governance (which is this month's theme on the Acronym blog, by the way). Jeffrey Cufaude mentioned it in a blog comment recently as one reason why association governance tends to be conservative....
Love Your Clients
I know some people get a little antsy when you start talking about "love" in the workplace. That's their prerogative. I also know that some of the most brilliant people I know embrace the idea with reckless abandon. I have decided to join forces with...
Documents Are Not Strategy
Here's a quick lesson that I think needs some reinforcement: your strategy documents are not your strategy. I know that we all know this already, but looking at the behavior of so many organizations, I'm not so sure. We invest so much time and money in...
Year End 2009
As I predicted in last year's final post, I think I did get a little more settled this year. Not that life didn't throw any curves at me, like getting two new association management clients all of a sudden this fall, but I have shifted out of constant crisis...
Why Do We Resist Learning?
I am quite proud that my guest post over on the SocialFish blog on whether your organization is human enough for social media got so much traction that it is third(!) on their post ranks. I'd like to unpack the post a bit over here.The first point I want to...
Holiday Gift: A New Blog!
I know, I know! You were probably just thinking to yourself, how is it possible that Jamie hasn't created a new blog recently?Well it wasn't just me. The whole staff at Management Solutions Plus (where I work) has created a blog. Although association blogging...
Being Serious About Strategy Can Also Be Relaxed
I developed a draft strategy process for one of the associations that I manage the other day. It didn't take me very long, and it's fairly loosely defined. We have five Board meetings next year, and I suggested a specific focus for a "strategic...
The Trouble with Hierarchy
In one of the (many!) amazing "Big Idea" posts that have been going around, Scott Briscoe on Acronym talks about hierarchy. Scott says we shouldn't hate hierarchy--we should hate the lack of leadership from people at the top of the hierarchy. Good...
Big Idea: What If Only You Could Change Associations?
I read and think a lot about associations. I care about associations. It's my career. I want the best for associations and I like to push associations into being better, more effective, more strategic, more human. So when Acronym challenged everyone to come up...