by Jamie Notter | Jul 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize, Learning
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I’ll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It’s from the section on creating a culture that understands and values learning. One...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 19, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Managing People
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some vocal push-back on these points. There are a lot...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 12, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Learning
I’ve been thinking a lot about experimentation this week (see my two posts yesterday, one here and one on socialfish), so today’s Humanize quote is from Chapter 9: How to Be Courageous, from the section on experimentation (p. 232): The processes and...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 28, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein’s work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are taken for granted, cultures are hard to change....
by Jamie Notter | Jun 21, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom’s awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says “we trust you. Use your best judgment.” You don’t have to be as brief as...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 3, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize
Some consultants in the UK sent me a copy of their white paper entitled “Unleashing the Future of Work.” I’m always happy to find kindred spirits, which was immediately apparent in this case, since the first line of the paper is “It’s...
