by Jamie Notter | Apr 12, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradivarius just outside the Metro escalators at the...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 15, 2007 | Change, Leadership
Guy Kawasaki points to an article by Stanford psychology professor, Carol Dweck about the role of “mindset” in success (in both business and family). Dweck seems to have a lot about raising children, but Kawasaki applied it to organizations:Here’s some food for...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 1, 2007 | Change, Conflict
I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of language lately. There was an interesting discussion on ASAE & The Center’s Executive Management listserve not too long ago about changing the name of a Board of Directors to a Board of Trustees, hoping that would help...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 23, 2007 | Change, Leadership
I posted on the Association Renewal blog about an HBR article about “Act II Leadership” because it’s about making change BEFORE things have gone completely downhill, a critical capacity in strategy making that too many organizations don’t have. But I failed to capture...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 22, 2007 | Change, Leadership
As a follow up to last week’s post about leadership and culture, I’ll point to yet another article in this month’s HBR (this month’s issue is certainly a keeper!). It’s actually a “best of” article that was originally published in 1995 by John Kotter on “why...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 13, 2006 | Change, Culture
I just used a quote in response to David Gammel’s comment to my last post, but as I look at it, I think it is good enough to get its own post. It is from Ed Schein, who is a great scholar and practitioner in the organization development field, known particularly for...
