by Jamie Notter | Feb 6, 2008 | Leadership, Managing People
I’ve posted before about the topic of giving performance rewards on an individual basis, versus rewarding entire teams or groups. I am not a compensation expert, but I find it interesting that individual-based rewards were shown (in one study, at least) to decrease...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 5, 2008 | Change, Leadership
I have one more reflection about the Technology Conference from last week. As Reggie pointed out in his post, the buzz was much more about web 2.0 than it was about traditional technology "tools." The keynote speakers and many of the concurrent session...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 15, 2008 | Change, Leadership
I quite by accident stumbled across some notes I took when I read Seth Godin’s 2002 book Survival Is Not Enough today. This quote seems worth repeating:The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: while you both evolved to the point where you...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 14, 2008 | Leadership
Superstar blogger Maddie Grant has posted an interesting introduction to what I hope will be an even more interesting online conversation about leadership. Maddie was not only named association blogger Rookie of the Year for 2007 by BMart, she was also honored by...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 4, 2008 | Books and Reading, Individual Development, Leadership
Okay, I have done two posts about Covey’s Speed of Trust book (here and here). Covey has five "waves" of trust. The first is self trust and focuses on what YOU need to do to be trustworthy and trust others. The second is relationship trust, and...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 18, 2007 | Leadership
David Gammel did a nice post (referring to his conference presentation) about innovation last week, so I’m going to jump on that bandwagon. There is a story about learning organizations in MIT’s Sloan Management Review, and it starts like this:Nearly every...