by Jamie Notter | Jun 22, 2018 | Change, Collaboration, Culture, Transparency
At the end of one of the phases of our culture consulting, we help clients create a “Culture Playbook.” It’s basically a list of things they will do inside their organization to either change or protect specific aspects of their culture, in order to ensure ongoing...
by Jamie Notter | May 17, 2018 | Agility, Change, Culture
I’m working with several clients right now on the “Playbook” stage of our culture consulting work. This is the part where the rubber meets the road—where they have to develop a list of things they are going to propose to management that will move their culture in a...
by Jamie Notter | May 11, 2018 | Culture, Managing People
I know that many leaders are losing sleep about low levels of employee engagement. So you think it would make sense to actively pursue engagement, right? I mean, who would want any disengaged employees? Okay, I agree: it would be great to have all your employees going...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 16, 2018 | Change, Culture
Awesome cultures seem to be the exception, not the rule. That means most of us are on the outside, looking in—wishing that we had an awesome culture like Zappos, Netflix, or the organization next door that keeps making the “best places to work” list. So when we can...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 28, 2018 | Change, Culture, Leadership
I always enjoyed the film Parenthood, from the late 1980s. Steve Martin played a guy who struggled with being the perfect parent (which is, of course, impossible). But there was a scene where Jason Robards, who played Martin’s father in the movie, gave a great speech...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 7, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
When organizations do work on their culture, they frequently want to rush to action. When we show them the results of our culture assessment, for example, it often leads immediately to a discussion about what should be done about it. Our Agility scores are more...
