by Jamie Notter | Jun 26, 2009 | Announcements, Consulting, Culture, Leadership, Managing People
I heard someone say recently that they were already sick of the word authenticity. It's obviously being discussed a LOT in social media spheres. I've talked about it here as well. I think it's a great word, but when any word gets too much play, it can...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 25, 2009 | Culture, Leadership
I said last week that I would "push back" against some of the things I learned at ASAE & The Center's CEO Symposium. There were times during the presentations where I felt the speakers made some generically accurate statements, yet overlooked some...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 22, 2009 | Culture
Here's post number two on Gary Hamel's Future of Management. I'm still in the first section of the book where he is talking about the three "meta issues" companies face when trying to actually change the way we manage. The first is creating...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2009 | Culture, Leadership, Learning, Managing People
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I expect leadership to exist everywhere in the...
by Jamie Notter | May 21, 2009 | Culture, Leadership
Like Joe Gerstandt, I can't let the exquisite post by Maddie Grant about the paradox of identity go unremarked. Maddie was reflecting initially on the paradoxes of identity in the "digital age," where we create identity profiles in different social...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 20, 2009 | Culture
Joe Gerstandt has done an outstanding series of blog posts about organizational culture. Seriously, I usually just refer people to Ed Schein's book on culture, but if you want to get just as much wisdom (but in only four blog posts), go read what Joe has to say...
