Jamie Notter Blog

The Power of Frustration

If you're at all interested in associations and social media, you likely have already heard about the "Power of A" campaign that ASAE & The Center has started--most notably the rather critical reaction it has garnered from many of those who are...

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Telling the Truth

On Tuesday I did two sessions at the CalSAE conference, one of which was titled "Truth-Telling in Challenging Times (and Challenging Situations). It was the first time I did this session, and I was happy with how it went. I also wrote an article about that topic...

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Is it happening to "them" or to you?

Did you read Jeff De Cagna's article in Associations Now? It's a good one. There was some interesting blog banter not too long ago about revolution versus incremental, and we all know Jeff's on the revolution side of things (his article is titled...

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Do versus Say

Seth Godin made a good point in his blog:We no longer care what you say.We care a great deal about what you do.I have personally hit a tipping point with regard to "messages." I'm sick of them. I rarely watch TV, but when I do I look at the ads and think...

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Culture Matters

Joe Gerstandt has done an outstanding series of blog posts about organizational culture. Seriously, I usually just refer people to Ed Schein's book on culture, but if you want to get just as much wisdom (but in only four blog posts), go read what Joe has to say...

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Why is Tax Day in the Middle of Poetry Month?

It's tax day. A day that requires us to multiply a large volume of numbers by things like 0.035 and 0.25, as long as the resulting number is less than whatever we had put on line 27 (if not, put a zero and skip to line 42). So why is this left-brained, analytical day...

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Book Review: Corporate Jestership

Associations Now published an article not too long ago by David Riveness titled "Bring in the Jester: Encouraging Open Interaction in the Workplace." I blogged about it, because I thought it made some important points about telling the truth in...

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I started a Meme

Without intending it, I seemed to have started a meme with my "Top 3" post last week on leadership. I wrote it thinking about what advice I would be giving someone early in their career so they could focus on developing their leadership capacity. I came up...

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