by Jamie Notter | Feb 7, 2012 | Humanize, Leadership, Social Media
Edelman’s Annual “Trust Barometer” report is out. Maddie broke the news on SocialFishing, pointing out that trust in CEOs dropped precipitously (50% last year; 38% this year), where trust in the “regular employee” was up by a similar...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 31, 2012 | Change, Leadership
This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown’s Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. I went through this program 11 years ago myself (though it didn’t have the “change leadership”...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 17, 2012 | Conflict, Leadership
There is an article in the Volunteer Leadership issue of Associations Now titled, “Balanced Conflict, Better Decisions.” The conclusions in the article concern me. I’m paraphrasing here, but the article says: “Cognitive” conflict is about...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 14, 2011 | Humanize, Leadership
Duncan Watts has a great blog post on HBR that talks about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Specifically, he has noticed how perplexed many of us are by the fact that the movement itself has no single, identifiable leader. How can it continue without someone to set a...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 12, 2011 | Change, Leadership, Managing People
I suppose that sounds obvious, but when I talk to people about changing the way they lead and manage organizations, I’m not so sure it’s that obvious. Instead, there seems to be a default assumption that in the future, management will look roughly like it...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 14, 2011 | Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership, Learning, Managing People
Whenever I get some time to think deeply about things related to the workplace, like how do we make work better, or what is leadership, or what is management, then I end up inescapably coming to the conclusion that is the title of this post: We have no idea what...
