by Jamie Notter | Jan 30, 2014 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership
Transparency is one of the 12 human principles that Maddie and I wrote about in Humanize, and it’s one I come back to frequently. Along with decentralization, collaboration, and experimentation, I’d put transparency in my “core four” principles...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 27, 2014 | Books and Reading, Culture, Leadership
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham Portfolio, 2005 As you can see, this is not a new book–bordering on 10 years old–but it’s worth a review, because it has some really good ideas in it, backed by good...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 24, 2014 | Conflict, Culture
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about “moving toward the conflict.” It’s an important conflict resolution tip that I talk about in my sessions on conflict. It’s almost always easier to deal with conflict when it is small, so when it first...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 21, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
Netflix has received a good amount of attention on its culture, driven primarily by the incredible viral success of its slide deck on culture, which CEO Reed Hastings published several years ago. I have a chapter devoted to Netflix in my culture ebook, along with a...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 16, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
Last April I posted about what I think is a misguided obsession, sometimes, with proof. Well, I’m starting to get bothered again, and this time it is in the context over the debate about the effectiveness of the “open office.” According to one...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 15, 2014 | Announcements, Culture
I am proud to have made it in the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy business for 2014. This list is generated by an organization called Trust Across America-Trust Around the World, and they’ve been compiling the list for several years now. Apparently this...