by Jamie Notter | Mar 8, 2019 | Books and Reading, Engagement
By now you should be aware that I’m kind of outraged that collectively we’ve spent billions of dollars on engagement surveys over the last several years, yet we haven’t improved our engagement scores. I think the metrics are a big piece of the problem. This whole...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 31, 2019 | Books and Reading, Engagement
When we set out last year to write The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement (which launches today!), our first task was to see what others were writing about the topic. And according to just about every article and blog post out there, engagement is “hard to...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 14, 2019 | Books and Reading, Change, Culture, Leadership
One of my mantras is that workplace culture isn’t as complicated, difficult, vague, etc. as we make it out to be. I’m not saying it’s super simple and easy, but it’s definitely something we all can handle. And since we push it away as “too complex,” we lack a tangible...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 5, 2018 | Books and Reading, Culture, Engagement
Maddie and I are BEYOND excited to announce the release of our next book, The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement (for Millennials, Boomers, and Everyone Else!). It’s part of a series of Non-Obvious Guides that our publisher (IdeaPress, led by the super-smart...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2018 | Books and Reading, Culture, Leadership, Strategy
EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) is a concept put forward by Gino Wickman in his book, Traction, and it is popular with many leaders. It’s a framework for leadership that includes some very clear processes for assigning roles, holding people accountable...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 10, 2015 | Announcements, Books and Reading, Change, Leadership, Learning
Elizabeth Engel from Spark Consulting LLC has a great new white paper out on applying the Lean Startup methodology in the association environment. I only discovered Lean Startup when I heard Eric Ries (author of the book, The Lean Startup) speak at SXSW earlier this...
