by Jamie Notter | Sep 19, 2012 | Change, Humanize, Managing People
In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I’ll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, and I’m excited to be bringing the...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 27, 2012 | Humanize, Individual Development
A couple of times over the last few months, people have asked me whether we tackle the topic of education in Humanize. We don’t, specifically, but I get where the question is coming from. We argue in Humanize that shifting from a mechanical view to a more human...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 23, 2012 | Culture, Humanize
I received this question via Twitter last night: It’s a good question. Decentralization certainly sounds like a structural issue, and that is a part of it. But I put more of it into culture. In Humanize, decentralization is the cultural part of being Open...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 21, 2012 | Change, Humanize
I’m reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance, by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking about organizations. A colleague suggested to...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 16, 2012 | Humanize, Leadership
Last week I did a keynote address for the summer conference of Goodwill Industries, and in my presentations these days, fairly early on I suggest that we have a significant problem in our organizations today: Management is failing. Yes. It’s failing. The way we...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 6, 2012 | Announcements, Humanize
If you want to see the slides from today’s keynote for Goodwill Industries, they are embedded below. This was a fun talk because I was asked to deliver it in a “TED style” with only 20 minutes max to deliver the message. I really do love the time...
