by Jamie Notter | Nov 9, 2007 | Change
For two weeks in a row I’ve listened to a Havard Business School Publishing virtual seminar. This one was by Gary Hamel, speaking about his new book,The Future of Management. It was a GREAT session, and I will blog about it a lot…but now I have to go to a...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 15, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the interview where he reveals what I think is a common...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 3, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is not my specialty, the title of the report caught...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 26, 2007 | Change
Chip and Dan Heath now have a “Made to Stick” column in Fast Company (that’s the title of their book). June’s edition talks about word of mouth marketing and how products can be interesting enough to command a “conversation.” As great as the Ritz Carlton is, they...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 20, 2007 | Change, Culture, Leadership
There is a nice piece about the strength of organizational culture in the Sloan Management Review. Researchers looked at “spinoff” companies to see if they could measure corporate culture and whether the spinoff companies had cultures that were different from the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 13, 2007 | Change, Conflict, Managing People
Larry Bossidy has the cover story in HBR this month about what leaders expect of you and what you should expect of leaders. Bossidy wrote the book, Execution, with Ram Charan. He is a former exec, and his style is very simple and direct, which is an interesting change...
