by Jamie Notter | Dec 17, 2012 | Announcements, Humanize, Learning
Time is running out to be a part of the inaugural “21st Century Nonprofit” program that Maddie and I are doing with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. The program begins in early January, and you need to fill out a brief application in order to be...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 14, 2012 | Culture, Humanize
I read in Forbes about a new list out of the best places to work, and this one is from Glassdoor. Unlike some of the other lists, where the companies actually apply to be on the list, this one is a big survey of employees across lots of companies (500,000 people...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 11, 2012 | Humanize, Managing People
Valve is a computer software company that’s on my list to research more, because it definitely exhibits “humanize” tendencies. It’s received a lot of attention for its new employee handbook, which is not the traditional, dry list of policies...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 5, 2012 | Humanize, Inclusion and Diversity, Leadership
The headline in the email from smartbrief captured my attention: 6 Reasons that Women Make Great Leaders Congratulations to marketer who wrote that subject line! It got me to open the email and click on the article. The article, however, has me shaking my head a bit...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 3, 2012 | Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership
The very first words in our book Humanize are from the character Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. In the movie, the irony to which he refers is...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 29, 2012 | Culture, Humanize
Maddie and I did a webinar yesterday along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. We love using NTEN as a case study of a human organization, and during the conversation, Amy was talking about NTEN’s values, including their “we walk the talk” value, which...
