Every Answer Has a Down Side

Wyatt Jenkins, a VP at Shuttestock, wrote a great HBR blog post about A/B testing and creating a culture of experimentation. In it, he makes an important point that is not made enough in all the books and blog posts that are promoting new and better ways to lead and...

Scaling Up Excellence (Review)

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...

Excerpt from Culture Ebook

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...

Finding a Good Culture Assessment

Although I can’t say that culture change is easy, there is a certain simplicity to the basic structure of the process: Figure out what your ideal culture is Honestly assess where your culture currently is. Close the gap. When it comes to that second...
Jamie Notter