by Jamie Notter | Feb 4, 2015 | Announcements, Culture, Generational Diversity
BIG NEWS to announce! In conjunction with Good.co, Maddie Grant and I will be hosting a new #culturechat Twitter chat every other Thursday at 1 pm EST starting this Thursday, February 5th. Mark your calendars!! Our first #culturechat will be about GENERATIONS AND...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 27, 2015 | Culture, Leadership
Maddie and I worked with a client last week on the topic of member engagement, and one of the insights that was particularly useful to this group was the idea that engagement is a two-way street. When we think about engagement–which could mean customers,...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 22, 2015 | Culture, Managing People
Or, at least, you shouldn’t be. On Tuesday I posted about a great article on LinkedIn about a company that gives its employees a MINIMUM number of vacation days they must take each year. They do this because they care about their employees and want them to be...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 30, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
One of my idols is Gary Hamel, and he declared this year that bureaucracy must die. I’m sure he’ll get a lot of support for that sentiment, since we have been hating bureaucracy since we invented the word (it has ALWAYS had a pejorative undertone), and we...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 19, 2014 | Culture
In every blog related to business or leadership, you’re going to find buzzwords, and mine is no exception. Culture, engagement, ownership–and even the very basics of leadership, change, and management–are all words that start to lose their meaning...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 3, 2014 | Conflict, Culture
All groups have norms–expectations about how the group does things. For formalized teams or Boards or Committees, once the group has been in existence for a while, the group norms become unspoken. Everyone knows them or can observe them fairly easily and learn...
