by Jamie Notter | Nov 15, 2007 | Individual Development
One of my favorite bloggers is Joe Raasch, of the Happy Burro blog. He recently "tagged" me as part of the Think Different challenge. I actually don’t know where it started, but it’s an interesting challenge where you are supposed to think differently...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 15, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the interview where he reveals what I think is a common...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 3, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is not my specialty, the title of the report caught...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 6, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
Although I don’t need a new book to put on my list, Guy Kawasaki points me to one that looks very interesting: Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (and Most Expensive Liability), by David Marcum and Steven Smith. Guy does an interview with Steven Smith....
by Jamie Notter | Sep 4, 2007 | Individual Development
Seth Godin posts something he wrote four years ago in is blog, but some of its points I think are timeless. It’s mostly about what it means to work hard. In manual labor, that was easy to measure, but what about when we all sit at a desk? People then cite how many...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 8, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
I just posted over on the Always Done It That Way blog about an HBR article that talks about the “middle term” time horizon. I posted over there, because it ties in directly with the post from the book that I wrote about Middle Level Thinking (which happened to be my...