by Jamie Notter | Nov 19, 2012 | Change, Culture, Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article–from 12 years ago no less–that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an article I need to read. Actually, I was kind...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 1, 2012 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership
Nearly two years ago, my friend Jeff De Cagna wrote a series of posts for ASAE’s blog (remember Acronym!?) about Umair Haque’s book, The New Capitalist Manifesto. Jeff started the series with a point about disruption. Apparently that’s the question...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 31, 2012 | Change, Culture, Humanize
So I am back from my whirlwind, three-city tour last week (Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago), which explains my lack of blogging. I had a fabulous time at three very different events. Monday I was speaking at the Organization Development Network’s annual meeting. These...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 25, 2012 | Change, Consulting, Culture
Organizational culture is a funny thing. I think most people would agree that it’s important. I don’t hear people saying, “Nah, it doesn’t matter what our organizational culture is; we’ll perform well regardless.” And if you ask a...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2012 | Culture, Humanize, Managing People
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, so these data are nothing to sneeze at. Okay, I...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 5, 2012 | Culture, Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points they make about their culture (“Values are...
