by Jamie Notter | Jul 30, 2007 | Individual Development
I was a good boy and did hardly any work while I was on vacation—or even much deep thinking. But one beach-walking insight I think is worth sharing: Our most bitter complaints about leadership (management, the boss, our coworkers, fill in the blank…) are usually...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 5, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
Ben Martin suggests playing chess as a way to develop integrative thinking (becoming more aware of how one move will play out three or four moves later). Good suggestion, Ben! So far, I have come up with two things that have worked for me: Meditation. By sitting still...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 3, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
More from Roger Martin about how successful leaders think. He argues that when faced with a problem or challenge, leaders work through four steps: Determining salience Analyzing causality Envisioning the decision architecture Achieving resolution. Conventional...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 20, 2007 | Individual Development
Last Sunday was my 40th birthday. I made no big deal of this. No party. I was out of town, in fact. But I will admit that being on this side of that birthday feels more “different” than I thought it would. I did get a chance to have a quiet brunch with some family...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 8, 2007 | Individual Development
On some of the listserves I follow, Friday is considered a day when it is okay to post things that are funny or frivolous. So why not make it the day to post things that are deep, too? Sometimes it feels like it’s all we can muster just to make it through our...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 7, 2007 | Culture, Individual Development, Leadership
Lisa Junker (ASAE & The Center staff and Acronym blogger) commented on my last post about the “inner work life” article in HBR, pointing to another specific point in the article:I was especially interested in Amabile and Kramer’s findings about the ways that...
