by Jamie Notter | Jul 30, 2013 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to everyone who read last week’s Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said “I’m with you, so what’s next?” In this post, we’re going to get started. And I really should apologize for the deceptive post...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize, Learning
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I’ll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It’s from the section on creating a culture that understands and values learning. One...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 17, 2013 | Announcements, Culture, Humanize
Below are the slides (with some notes) from the presentation I made this week at the Associations Forum National Conference in Sydney, Australia (okay, I wasn’t there in person, but I made the presentation via Skype). I set the stage for several other panelists...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 16, 2013 | Announcements, Consulting, Culture
I hope you’ve seen the blog post that I wrote last Friday over on the Clarity.fm website. It’s titled “Create a Culture that Drives Success, Not One that Makes You Feel Good.” The founder of Clarity asked me to do a post for them, and I was...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 11, 2013 | Culture, Strategy
In Monday’s post I talked about Rita Gunther McGrath’s HBR article on Transient Advantage. She suggests that in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world, companies should not be looking for a sustained competitive advantage, but should instead be...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 28, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein’s work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are taken for granted, cultures are hard to change....
