by Jamie Notter | Jul 30, 2013 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to everyone who read last week’s Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said “I’m with you, so what’s next?” In this post, we’re going to get started. And I really should apologize for the deceptive post...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize, Learning
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I’ll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It’s from the section on creating a culture that understands and values learning. One...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 25, 2013 | Humanize, Leadership
My last post seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of people (yay!). And I do hope I can get some conversation going, either through comments or other blog posts, from folks within HR. I was serious about being inclusive. But interestingly, the first post that...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 23, 2013 | Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Dear Human Resources Field, I’ve been struggling with how to say this in the most supportive and effective way possible (because I do love you), but after a seemingly endless stream of imperfect drafts that I have deleted, I’ve decided to just blurt it out: I’m done...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 19, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Managing People
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some vocal push-back on these points. There are a lot...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 18, 2013 | Humanize, Individual Development, Managing People
There’s another stellar article in the June HBR (posts here and here are about the other good one). This one is about the new employer-employee contract (check out this site). I hear a fair amount of complaints about the decline in employee loyalty. Nobody stays...
