by Jamie Notter | Mar 24, 2011 | Change, Truth
In my March e-newsletter, the question of the month was, basically, “What are you going to stop doing?” I have loved this theme for a long time (maybe Jim Collins was the first time I remember it being presented clearly?), but it came up twice at Great...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 3, 2011 | Change
Nearly six years ago I blogged about Gordon MacKenzie's awesome book, Orbiting the Giant Hairball. It is such an amazing book, I wanted to draw attention to it again. The title comes from MacKenzie's idea that organizations and bureaucracies are like giant...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 9, 2011 | Change
If you haven't already, please look at the interesting dialogue between Jeff De Cagna and Eric Lanke about innovation. Eric is on the Board of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives and is involved in their innovation task force. Jeff is a consultant...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 20, 2010 | Change, Learning
We love to focus on the beginning and the end. We like to develop our strategic plans, and we like to have our celebrations or evaluation meetings. But we don't often like what happens in the middle. That's where it isn't working, or it's not done, or...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 14, 2010 | Change, Learning, Truth
I did some work last week with a volunteer group that was half way through it's year of activity. They were at a point where they wanted to look back at how the experience has been going so they could make adjustments for the second half of the year. So at the...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 30, 2010 | Change, Social Media
I am speaking to an association in Iowa next week on leadership, and a couple of the themes I'll be talking about are (a) how fast things change these days, and, somewhat related, (b) how social media is changing the game in general. And it's not about...
