by Jamie Notter | Feb 12, 2007 | Individual Development, Managing People
Associations Now this month has a little piece up front about the “bad boss” (although they announce that next month they will do one on “evil employee”). It’s drawn from Buckingham and Coffman’s First Break All the Rules book. This is my favorite quote:But if your...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 6, 2007 | Inclusion and Diversity, Individual Development, Leadership
More of my notes from Great Ideas 07: Dan Heath: If you want it to stick, then SAY SOMETHING. It takes courage to say something so clearly that it can be refuted or even proven wrong. Identity is more powerful than narrow self-interest. Ned Hallowell: We are...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 5, 2007 | Books and Reading, Individual Development, Leadership
I had a super time at the Great Ideas conference, although the notes in my learning journal are a little sparse this year. That is partially because I did have to skip a session or two in order to continue re-creating my slides for my presentation, after my hard drive...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 24, 2007 | Individual Development
I finally got around to reading the “regular” part of Associations Now. They put most of the good stuff, in my opinion, in the Volunteer Leadership supplement. I liked the cover story about paradoxes (my favorite quote is here on the Always Done It That Way blog)....
by Jamie Notter | Jan 16, 2007 | Conflict, Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
At the end of my session Friday, the group asked if I had any final words of wisdom. I like to respond to those requests, even though I don’t have a “stock” answer prepared ahead of time. And although I didn’t make the connection as I was saying it, what I came up...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 9, 2007 | Individual Development
Edward Hallowell has an article in Associations Now’s "Volunteer Leadership" supplement this month. It talks about finding balance and managing time so you don’t get "crazy busy" (Hallowell wrote a book by that title). There are lots of...
