by Jamie Notter | Jun 21, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom’s awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says “we trust you. Use your best judgment.” You don’t have to be as brief as...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 19, 2013 | Culture, Humanize, Learning, Managing People
Give yourself a little bit of time (it’s a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the “bossless office” written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the “decentralization” idea that we...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 18, 2013 | Culture
I urge everyone to watch this video of General David Morrison of the Australian Army. It’s only 3 minutes, and in the video he makes crystal clear his views about sexual harassment in the Australian Army. Apparently there is an investigation going on about some...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 14, 2013 | Culture, Humanize, Truth
I’m starting a new feature of the blog: the Friday Quote. I’m going to pick a short quote from Humanize or a book that I am reading that connects to what I have been working on that week, and share it with the hopes of sparking some reflection as you head...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 13, 2013 | Culture, Humanize
Below are the slides from a keynote I did last week. I pulled out five lessons from the Humanize book that I think are most relevant to creating a stronger culture: Decentralization Transparency Systems Thinking Ownership, and Experimentation. But remember, just...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 5, 2013 | Announcements, Culture, Humanize, Social Media
So MIT and Deloitte have done a repeat of their 2012 report on Social Business (that I cite frequently in my Humanize keynotes). They aren’t releasing the full 2013 report until July, but they did a blog post teaser. The big (though not surprising) news: social...
