by Jamie Notter | Jun 23, 2015 | Announcements, Change, Culture
This Thursday we’ll be hosting another #CultureChat on twitter, and our topic will focus in on the what, when, and how of changing an existing culture. I find that a lot of the organizations with really amazing cultures grew up like that. Their founders created...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2015 | Culture, Generational Diversity
This post originally appeared on the Switch and Shift blog. There is a generalized, low-level anxiety in the business world about attracting the top talent. A warm feeling of wellbeing will come over you, and you feel more happily disposed and free from both anxiety...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 1, 2015 | Consulting, Culture, Generational Diversity
Since publishing When Millennials Take Over, we’ve been consistently approached by people wanting us to answer a central question: how do we attract Millennials? Whether it’s about attracting customers or the best employees, we see a definite sense of...
by Jamie Notter | May 26, 2015 | Announcements, Culture, Managing People
This Thursday, May 28th, at 1pm ET we will convene the next #CultureChat session, and this month’s focus will be on hierarchy. Specifically, we’ll be digging into something that has emerged as a bit of a hot topic these days: Holacracy. In case you...
by Jamie Notter | May 12, 2015 | Change, Culture, Managing People
I wrote a few months ago about Zappos’ experiment with Holacracy, a system of management that discards the traditional hierarchy in favor of a flexible and dynamic one where employees are more responsible for managing themselves. Zappos (1,500+ employees) is the...
by Jamie Notter | May 4, 2015 | Change, Culture
I was at a conference last week, and in one of the sessions we talked about some of the organizations that I call the “culture cool kids”: Netflix, Zappos, Southwest, Google, Apple, etc. These organizations are frequently mentioned in the press, and I see...
