by Jamie Notter | Mar 28, 2020 | Change, Engagement, Managing People
Normally, as a speaker, the spring is a very busy season for me, with lots of travel for conferences and events. But there is very little, as you all well know, that is “normal” right now. Not only is everyone postponing and cancelling events, employees are now...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 29, 2019 | Change, Transparency, Truth
I was listening to a podcast the other day with Esther Duflo, a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, who was talking about the importance of empirical evidence when you’re trying to change things (in her context, reducing global poverty). A lot of economists...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 24, 2019 | Agility, Change, Culture, Innovation
Earlier this month I spoke to a small group of COOs as part of an event put on by CEO Update. The session included me and another speaker on culture, Michele Gelfand, who is a professor at the University of Maryland and released a book last year called Rule Makers,...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 18, 2019 | Change, Collaboration, Conflict
I started my career in the conflict resolution field, so conflict has always been on my radar, even as my work switched to workplace culture over the years. And while I may be that guy with the conflict hammer that thinks everything looks like a conflict nail, I have...
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 31, 2018 | Change, Culture, Engagement
Since today is the last day of the year, I’m going to boil everything down for you. If I had to give ONE piece of advice to leaders who want to: get the most out of their organizations attract and retain the best talent beat the competition, or even make them...
