by Jamie Notter | Feb 3, 2014 | Books and Reading, Change, Culture
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business, 2014 I am particularly excited to review this book because I had the privilege to get an advance copy from the authors (it doesn’t actually go on...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 27, 2014 | Books and Reading, Culture, Leadership
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham Portfolio, 2005 As you can see, this is not a new book–bordering on 10 years old–but it’s worth a review, because it has some really good ideas in it, backed by good...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 17, 2014 | Books and Reading, Social Media
This edition of the Friday quote is not from Humanize–it’s from Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web, by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. This book came out in 2010 (a lifetime ago in social media years), and...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Misc
Below are the top 8 blog posts of this year, as ranked by page views. It’s hard to do a straight, objective ranking here, since looking at page views on an annual basis gives an edge to the older posts, so I looked at three-month-blocks and tried to pick out the...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 20, 2013 | Books and Reading
Fierce Loyalty: Unlocking the DNA of Wildly Successful Communities by Sarah Robinson Hayfield Publishing, 2012 I’m halfway through several good business books right now, but I was able to squeeze in a small but very good book this week that is worthy of a...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 18, 2013 | Books and Reading, Change, Culture
In case you didn’t see it, SmartBrief has reprinted an excerpt from my new ebook, Culture That Works, over on their SmartBlog on Leadership. It’s from Chapter 2, and it includes my definition of culture. My favorite quote: And, unlike products and...
