by Jamie Notter | Feb 13, 2013 | Humanize, Individual Development
So I got more than a couple of tweets and emails from friends the other day who noticed a post on Seth Godin’s blog, called “Humanize It.” Their first suggestion, of course, was that we send him a book. (For the record, we already had sent him one,...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 25, 2013 | Announcements, Free Resources, Humanize, Individual Development, Managing People
This year I’m launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I’m launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I’m calling the series “Making It...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 12, 2012 | Consulting, Individual Development, Managing People
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way–still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews–like these articles in the New York Times,...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 3, 2012 | Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership
The very first words in our book Humanize are from the character Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. In the movie, the irony to which he refers is...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 5, 2012 | Culture, Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points they make about their culture (“Values are...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 27, 2012 | Humanize, Individual Development
A couple of times over the last few months, people have asked me whether we tackle the topic of education in Humanize. We don’t, specifically, but I get where the question is coming from. We argue in Humanize that shifting from a mechanical view to a more human...
