by Jamie Notter | Oct 22, 2013 | Culture, Leadership, Learning
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday’s post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan Management Review about the “CEO...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 17, 2013 | Change, Culture, Humanize, Leadership, Social Media
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their “Innovation Stage” to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My (very short) slide deck is...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 11, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture
I am almost done with my ebook on culture. The working title is A Culture that Works. It’s going to be an app-specific release, using the Snippet App, that my friend Ted CoinĂ© told me about. It’s about 11,000 words, so it’s not too long. Snippet...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh Business Plus, 2010 The online retailer Zappos is arguably the premiere poster-child for company culture in today’s business world. Zappos started selling shoes online in 1999, which was...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 13, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
“Customer-centric” is a full-on buzzword these days, but it is in obvious extension of the big-picture social media trend we’ve been watching for several years now, where power is shifting away from the company and towards the consumer. Everyone...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 9, 2013 | Culture
I am currently writing an e-book about culture, and as you might have predicted, it will include some discussion of Zappos. Zappos is the poster child for a powerful culture that drives results (I highly recommend Delivering Happiness), and here’s one of my...