by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Leadership
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the movies who do amazing things that we would be...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 16, 2013 | Announcements, Books and Reading, Humanize
Humanize is now available as an audio book on audible.com, and we’ve got five copies to give away! But instead of just giving 5 copies to the first five commenters, I thought I’d make it a bit more interesting. I want to give these books to people who want...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 13, 2013 | Books and Reading, Change, Humanize
For this edition of the Friday quote, I’m pointing you to an excellent blog post by Danny Brown, in which he suggests that we think a bit more about the new term, “social business.” He argues that the popular definitions today focus too much on...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 13, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
“Customer-centric” is a full-on buzzword these days, but it is in obvious extension of the big-picture social media trend we’ve been watching for several years now, where power is shifting away from the company and towards the consumer. Everyone...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 23, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Learning
That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): “There is just one problem. Best practices are evil.” To be honest, I think most people skip over the page-and-a-half that explains it,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 16, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize, Inclusion and Diversity
In Monday’s post, I reflected about the ASAE Annual Meeting and how some of the sub-communities seemed to be operating in separate circles. My underlying concern in that post is that we’re eliminating a critical component in our broader community by...
