by Jamie Notter | Dec 3, 2010 | Culture, Leadership
I had a great time on Wednesday speaking to the Virginia Association of Realtors Leadership conference on the topic of building trust between members and the board. One of the first papers I ever had published was on trust (back in 1995), and being from the conflict...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 30, 2010 | Leadership, Truth
I'm speaking about trust tomorrow, so I plan on a few more blog posts on the topic, but this is just a quick reflection on a post from my new favorite blog, Ben's Blog, from Ben Horowitz, a venture capitalist. The title of his post is "CEOs Should Tell it...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 23, 2010 | Books and Reading, Leadership
Given my attraction to both issues of truth and leadership, I couldn't resist getting this book on my iPad, though, in fact, Kouzes and Posner are established leadership authors, and their book from the 1980s, The Leadership Challenge, was always one of my...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 10, 2010 | Leadership, Strategy, Truth
Strategy is a concept that I love, but at the same time it really bugs me. It's a seemingly simple idea (we all have an intuitive sense of what being strategic is), and we have all talked it to death when it comes to organizations and strategic planning, yet for...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 28, 2010 | Culture, Generational Diversity, Leadership
This was an insight that I was able to articulate at my recent generational diversity training. As I was going over the four generations in the workplace, I found myself almost feeling a bit guilty about talking too much about the Silent Generation (the oldest in the...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 27, 2010 | Announcements, Leadership, Social Media
In case any of you didn't realize it, I do a regular monthly blog post on the world famous Socialfishing blog. The title of my column is "the social organization," and I write about the intersection of social media with leadership, management, and...