by Jamie Notter | Apr 12, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradivarius just outside the Metro escalators at the...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 5, 2007 | Individual Development
More on the language theme… Guy Kawasaki is also interested in language, as he reprinted on his blog George Orwell’s entire essay (from 1946) about the decay of the English language. Orwell’s focus is on politics, but I think the basic points are dead on in terms of...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 26, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
I can’t stress enough how GREAT the February issue of Harvard Business Review is. I’ve already got the March issue, plus several other magazines I want to read, but I have been putting them off as I continue to read super articles in this issue. As I said in the last...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 20, 2007 | Conflict, Individual Development
I came across a great quote to share about forgiveness. Forgiveness/reconciliation is one of the most difficult parts of conflict resolution (in terms of “intractable” international conflicts, I think it is THE biggest issue). But I admit workplace conflicts don’t...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 20, 2007 | Conflict, Individual Development
I came across a great quote to share about forgiveness. Forgiveness/reconciliation is one of the most difficult parts of conflict resolution (in terms of “intractable” international conflicts, I think it is THE biggest issue). But I admit workplace conflicts don’t...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 13, 2007 | Individual Development, Managing People
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about bad bosses, I want to focus on the employee side a little. I had lunch on Friday with a CEO who just took a new job and is frustrated with several of the staff people she inherited. Under the previous boss, the level of work...
