by Jamie Notter | Oct 25, 2011 | Leadership
Steve Drake pointed me to an interesting blog post based on some of the material from the most recent Steve Jobs biography. Apparently Jobs thought it was a problem when CEOs become too focused on sales: I have my own theory about why the decline happens at companies...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 13, 2011 | Leadership
I give credit to Shelly Alcorn and her Association Subculture blog for triggering this post. She wrote a post about “volume,” referring to a very cool video of George Carlin. Carlin talked about how, later in his career, he learned to “raise his...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 12, 2011 | Change, Leadership, Strategy
I already did an overall recap post on the ASAE Annual Meeting over on the Common Thread blog with some big picture reactions to the event. Here I wanted to dig into some of the issues a little more deeply, and there’s one that I have been stewing over for a...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 12, 2011 | Individual Development, Leadership
Tony Schwartz wrote a fantastic post on HBR today on Ten principles to live by in today’s complex world. All of them are spot on, so read the whole thing, but I’ll focus on one of them that jumped out at me: Emotions are contagious, so it pays to know what...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 7, 2011 | Individual Development, Leadership
I am not a fan of the idea of control. I actually hadn’t given it too much thought prior to a few years ago when the theme of “clarity over control” emerged as a part of the social media revolution. My post back in February 2008 on the “myth of...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 23, 2011 | Individual Development, Leadership
The economic news these days does not induce a lot of smiles. I was at a presentation last night given to members of one of the associations I manage about economic indicators, and the analyst joked at the beginning of his presentation that there was an 85% chance...
