by Jamie Notter | Apr 26, 2012 | Change, Strategy
Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. In other words, a winning strategy is context specific, thus it needs to evolve and grow (we talk about this in Humanize in the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 24, 2012 | Change
I have officially grown tired of the excuse that change is hard. Change is not hard. And it’s not change that people resist in organizations. As long as we think that, we’ll never get better. Here’s what people resist: Stupid ideas Being told what to...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 3, 2012 | Change, Managing People
That’s the title from a panel session I helped deliver at the Great Ideas Conference last week. The description from the brochure: People make innovation happen. Ok, but how do they do it? Join us to learn tips and techniques to getting started…investigating...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 30, 2012 | Change, Learning
So I am back from what might be my 11th or 12th Great Ideas conference (I’ve been to them all, back to the GWSAE days, but I’ve lost count), and as usual I had a great time. I enjoyed delivering both the deep dive on Humanize (with Maddie Grant) on the...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 9, 2012 | Change, Humanize
This article by Steve Denning on Forbes.com really hit me. Much of it cites Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who has an article in Vanity Fair that argues our current economic downturn isn’t just a cyclical dip, but the mark of a significant...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 2, 2012 | Change, Humanize
I spoke this week at Avectra’s User and Developer Conference (AUDC). It was awesome conference. I can’t even put my finger on it entirely, but the energy and learning and interactions all seemed…accelerated somehow. Well done, Avectra! Anyway, on...
