by Jamie Notter | Aug 29, 2014 | Books and Reading, Leadership, Managing People
This week’s Friday quote is by Peter Block (though I’m reading the quote in Lindy and Maddie’s Open Community book, p. 118): Community is not built by specialized expertise, or great leadership, or improved services; it is built by great citizens....
by Jamie Notter | Jul 11, 2014 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Truth
In Chapter 5 of Humanize, we actually go back a few centuries in our analysis, pointing out that the entire western world has been looking at the universe in a very mechanistic way since the 1600s, and we have Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries to blame. They...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 8, 2014 | Books and Reading, Individual Development, Leadership
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2010 This book argues that many problems we face internally in our organizations (conflict among employees or silos, nasty bosses, ineffective employees,...
by Jamie Notter | May 28, 2014 | Books and Reading, Leadership
Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible by Les McKeown Do Book Co, 2014 In Chapter 3 of Humanize, Maddie and I take to task the authors, experts, and even “gurus” on the topic of leadership. As important as the concept is, we point out that...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 28, 2014 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Leadership
The third of the four human elements we discuss in Humanize is “Generative.” This has always been the one people are initially least clear about, as generative is not a commonly used word (in any context, let alone the business context). The short...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 21, 2014 | Books and Reading, Conflict, Free Resources
Elizabeth Engel, Leslie White, and I put out a White Paper last week on risk, strategy, and implementation. Although not in the title of the white paper, conflict is a big piece of what we write about. We need to make sure that risk analysis is adequately baked into...
