by Jamie Notter | May 15, 2014 | Change, Culture, Learning, Truth
Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I’ve made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at really huge companies, some of whom have 100,000...
by Jamie Notter | May 14, 2014 | Change, Culture, Managing People
When I speak about culture change, inevitably the audience (or more specifically, the organizer) is looking for something practical, that they can take home and apply right away. This can be a challenge when it comes to culture change, which is by its nature a complex...
by Jamie Notter | May 7, 2014 | Change, Culture
Take six minutes to watch this TED talk given by General Stanley McChrystal, in which he makes the case for sharing information, rather than keeping it secret. He worked for years leading the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq, and he said that THE biggest factor in the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 22, 2014 | Change
I hear very few leaders in organizations argue against the IDEA of innovation. It’s cool. It’s progressive. All the cool tech companies are doing it. It’s about creating new value, after all, so who could be against creating new value?! its all in...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 6, 2014 | Announcements, Change, Culture
Next week is the ASAE Great Ideas Conference, and I am delivering a session on Tuesday morning titled, “Culture Change for Bottom Line Results.” In the session, I’ll talk about the work I did over the last few years with Fitness Australia, who put a...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 26, 2014 | Change, Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership
Inclusion is one of the 12 human principles that Maddie and I write about in Humanize (Chapter 8, starting on p. 190). We also talk about decentralization, and in this month’s Harvard Business Review, Gail McGovern, the CEO of the American Red Cross, tells an...
