Jamie Notter Blog
Things You Don’t Know About Me Meme
Maddie "Reigning Blog Rookie of the Year" Grant has tagged me in the good ol' Tell us five things we don't know about you blogging meme. She tagged me and some other long time bloggers, pointing out that the association blogosphere has grown considerably in the last...
Things You Don't Know About Me Meme
Maddie "Reigning Blog Rookie of the Year" Grant has tagged me in the good ol' Tell us five things we don't know about you blogging meme. She tagged me and some other long time bloggers, pointing out that the association blogosphere has grown...
Publishing Everyone’s Salaries: Not Just My Idea
I caught a little big of flack a few months ago when I suggested total transparency around financial information in organizations, which included telling everyone what everyone else made. A few people pointed out to me that it was easy for me to throw this gauntlet...
Publishing Everyone's Salaries: Not Just My Idea
I caught a little big of flack a few months ago when I suggested total transparency around financial information in organizations, which included telling everyone what everyone else made. A few people pointed out to me that it was easy for me to throw this gauntlet...
Strategy is Hard Work
I facilitated some strategy work with a client two weekends ago, and it was hard work. I pushed them hard on identifying the missing "middle level thinking" in their strategy. They had some success, and even with only less than one full day to do this work,...
Change them or change you?
I know I've written about this before, but it bears repeating:The only thing you control is your own behavior.Period. Of course you can have conversations with others about their behavior. I am a big fan of giving people direct feedback, and making specific...
The Jester Speaks the Truth
If you're flipping through the most recent Associations Now and end up skipping the article titled "Bring in the Jester" because you think it's a fluff piece about having more fun in the workplace, PLEASE RECONSIDER!Actually, I think fun in the...
Gaming the System
Here's another quote from the Harvard Business Review article about Pixar. Last week I wrote about the difference between communicating and deciding. Today it's an interesting quote about postmortems. I am a big fan of doing postmortem reviews of projects,...
Communicating versus Deciding
I am ashamed at how long it has been since I covered an interesting article in Harvard Business Review. In fact, I'm not going to look back to see how long it has been! But on a plane ride I managed to read the September issue, and a couple of quotes caught my...