by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2007 | Culture, Individual Development, Leadership
Thanks to Chris Bailey for linking to my recent post quoting the poet David Whyte. I included that quote because the word “conversation” had leapt out at me. Interestingly, it was the word “belong” that jumped out for Chris.When an actual spirit of belonging is...
by Jamie Notter | May 2, 2007 | Conflict, Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to Greg Melia for his excellent comments on my post about Good and Bad conflict. I continue to see people writing about it this way, and I’m beginning to think I need to start writing something about this (oh no! Not another book!). The most recent example is...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 20, 2007 | Change, Culture, Leadership
There is a nice piece about the strength of organizational culture in the Sloan Management Review. Researchers looked at “spinoff” companies to see if they could measure corporate culture and whether the spinoff companies had cultures that were different from the...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 20, 2006 | Culture
The Fast Company blog has weighed in on the recent trend of violence in professional basketball. The Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks are the latest to get attention for players beating each other up on national television. Learn More Here to make it...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 13, 2006 | Change, Culture
I just used a quote in response to David Gammel’s comment to my last post, but as I look at it, I think it is good enough to get its own post. It is from Ed Schein, who is a great scholar and practitioner in the organization development field, known particularly for...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 27, 2006 | Culture, Managing People
In Jeffrey Pfeffer’s column in Business 2.0 this month is he cites a famous article by Albert Hirschman called “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.” Hirschman argues that when people are dissatisfied, they have a choice: complain and try to change things, or leave. This means...
