by Jamie Notter | Apr 23, 2009 | Change, Individual Development
Seth Godin made a good point in his blog:We no longer care what you say.We care a great deal about what you do.I have personally hit a tipping point with regard to "messages." I'm sick of them. I rarely watch TV, but when I do I look at the ads and think...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2009 | Change
I need some help here. I know that there are a ton of very, very smart people who are involved in "branding," so I assume that branding must be a good thing. But when I hear it discussed, I'm not convinced. So please, branding people, can you answer some...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 10, 2008 | Change, Leadership, Social Media
The October HBR is chock full of "myth of control" articles. I mentioned a small one yesterday, but the lead article by Scott Cook of Intuit (maker of Quicken) is all about "harnessing the masses" by building "user contribution systems."...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 13, 2008 | Change, Leadership, Strategy
Thanks Jeff for chiming in on my rant against strategic planning. It reminded me, however, that I had wanted to point to YOUR previous post about best practices so I could take my turn chiming in. Jeff quotes Dave Pollard who wrote of legacy technologies and practices...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 31, 2008 | Change, Leadership, Strategy
Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don’t Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don’t know about ChangeThis, go check them out). I read the...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 30, 2008 | Change
…And living, breathing creatures are always changing. Hmmmm. I came across a nice post on a small business blog that invoked one of my all-time favorite quotes: "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you always got." This, of...
