Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations

That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of them are broken. It's time to create new...

Creating Tomorrow's Organizations

That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of them are broken. It's time to create new...

Capacity for Solving Problems

 My speaking schedule brought me through Omaha, Nebraska yesterday, which afforded me the great luxury of some face time with Joe Gerstandt. We had no agenda, but spent the morning quite productively talking about all things leadership. One of the insights from...

We Can Do Better

Despite the title of this post, let me start by saying I am skeptical of our culture of continuous growth and continuous improvement. There's nothing wrong with improvement, I suppose, but it has been translated into a culture where we always need to win, we...

The Truth as a Leadership Imperative

I am excited to announce that the article I wrote for Associations Now about Truth is now available online. I was floored when I saw that it was going to be the cover story for June! I don't know when the print issue comes out, but either way, you can read it...
Jamie Notter