by Jamie Notter | Nov 24, 2014 | Change, Culture, Leadership
Having spent a fair amount of time over the last few months with CEOs in organizations with amazing cultures, I’ve been thinking about the role of the CEO. I’ve written about this before. It sort of bugs me that the CEOs have so much sway over culture, but...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 20, 2014 | Culture, Generational Diversity, Humanize
After my keynote last year for Sitrion’s client conference, I sat down with Daniel Kraft, their super-smart CEO, and chatted about culture and human organizations. Check it out; it’s about 6 minutes long (if you can’t see the video below, then click...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 19, 2014 | Culture, Social Media
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. This is the fifth in a series of posts he’s writing about how he, as a CEO, is building and sustaining an intentional culture in his organization, a national trade association. His...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 13, 2014 | Change, Consulting, Culture
When you are interviewing people for an open position at your organization, and you ask the candidate if they have any questions for you, I’ll bet that more often than not you get something along the lines of “So what is the culture like here?” And...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 6, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
“Community” is a big word in my circles, particularly in this day and age of online communities. There seem to be a lot of people in organizations who fret about their need to “build” community for their members or customers, and for large...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 30, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Note that the title says “easier,” not “easy.” It’s rarely easy to fire people. In most cases the person that needs to go is a good person, and probably does a decent job–just not the job you need right now in this particular...
