Different Kinds of Innovation

Here’s another bit of content from my client presentation about innovation earlier this week. Yesterday I gave you my simple definition of innovation. After the definition, I talked about three different kinds of innovation. I think it’s important that we...

What is Innovation?

I facilitated a staff retreat for a department within a larger association yesterday, and they asked me to talk to them about innovation. So instead of borrowing a definition of innovation from one of the many innovation experts out there, I decided to invent my own...

The Shift from Push to Pull

I’m making my way through McKinsey’s study about adoption of social technologies in the workplace. The study suggests we can find a 20% increase in proeductivity if we adopt these technologies (particularly in large organizations). One way to get this...

The Change Portfolio

I’m reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance, by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking about organizations. A colleague suggested to...

Be Intentional

I did a session at the ASAE annual meeting last week. I co-presented a “Conversations that Matter” session along with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive who is actually implementing the ideas from Humanize in a very...

What Chains Do You Revere?

My friend Olivier Blanchard posted this quote on Facebook the other day: That’s a beautiful quote. And in case you’re wondering, the real application of this quote is not in you feeling superior to all those fools who revere their chains. It’s in...
Jamie Notter