by Jamie Notter | Oct 26, 2009 | Leadership, Managing People, Social Media
I have yet to come across anyone who argues that trust is a bad thing. There are certainly times where we don't trust people, and we wouldn't just blindly trust them because we think trust is generically a good thing, but we would never argue against the...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 19, 2009 | Leadership
On Friday I was in St. Louis doing a pre-conference session for an association client that covered a wide range of topics for their chapter leaders, including succession planning. My pet peeve with succession planning is that too many associations define it as a...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 15, 2009 | Leadership, Managing People, Truth
I like this blog post on SmartBlog Insights that gives an HR perspective on how to manage things differently during the recession. Sometimes we get so stressed out about declining revenue and shortage of staff, that we forget that our employees have had no...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 8, 2009 | Change, Leadership
I have written two posts that are explicitly about being human this year. The first was building off Dan Oestreich's blog and the second was building off of Gary Hamel's awesome book, The Future of Management. In both posts I make a fairly simple...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 7, 2009 | Leadership, Managing People
Both the big picture and the little picture are important. Forest and trees. Got it. But why do we insist that the big picture is the responsibility of the "leaders" in an organization, and the details are the domain of others?Okay, I get that you...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 22, 2009 | Leadership, Social Media
A lot of people who are doing social media in organizations, particularly associations, may resonate with the article on the Harvard Business Publishing blog that refers to "stranded evangelists." These are the people doing social media and experience...
