by Jamie Notter | Oct 8, 2013 | Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership, Learning
From an interesting New York Times interview with Michael Gould, the CEO of Bloomingdales, here are some Humanize-related quotes: I believe the business I’m in is giving people an opportunity to grow. At the end of the day, no one remembers anyone’s numbers, no matter...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 2, 2013 | Conflict, Leadership, Learning
Today I am delivering a pilot version of a workshop on strategic risk and decision making for management teams, co-delivered with Elizabeth Engel and Leslie White. Leslie is leading the discussion on risk and Elizabeth is digging into how strategic thinking (as...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 24, 2013 | Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team performance starts to flow. It’s awesome....
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Leadership
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the movies who do amazing things that we would be...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 4, 2013 | Culture, Leadership
PwC does an annual survey of CEOs. Here are some interesting quotes from their 16th edition, released earlier this year: One key point of our strategic advantage is the capability to ‘orchestrate’ the production and engineering value chain we create in partnership...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 21, 2013 | Humanize, Leadership
Get a copy of IBM’s recent report on research they did with CEOs (hat tip to SmartBrief for pointing me there). I promise to do some more specific blog posts about it, because it has some important material in there, but I’ll just start with a collection...
