by Jamie Notter | Oct 18, 2011 | Humanize
Let’s say you’re on the beach building a sand castle. It’s a nice sunny day, and you build quite a masterpiece with towers and moats and walls (heck, it can have a working drawbridge for all I care, because this is just a metaphor after all). Then a...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 13, 2011 | Change, Humanize, Managing People
Everybody hates organizational silos. They are a problem. They get in the way. They need to be “busted.” And to some extent, I agree. The way our different departments seem to erect walls separating them from each other can definitely cause problems. What...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 5, 2011 | Humanize
This is the last in my series of six “Exploring Humanize” blog posts where I go over the basic content in the book. If you missed the previous ones, just go to the Humanize category and you can scan through them all. And if you’re ready to buy the...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 4, 2011 | Humanize
When Maddie and I did an informal talk on the book back in August (before we were done editing!), one of the participants asked us to elaborate on what it means to be “generative.” Of the four human elements in our trellis, this one was the least familiar,...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 3, 2011 | Humanize
The second element in our Trellis for human organizations is trustworthy. It’s unfortunately not a word we associate with organizations too frequently. Over the years, I think we’ve given up. We expect organizations to spin us, to withhold information, to...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 30, 2011 | Humanize
The first human element we dig into is “open,” which is the focus of chapter 6. We started with open because we think it has always been the foundation of social media’s power. Social media took what was closed and made it open. It was decentralized,...
