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...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 14, 2007 | Change, Leadership
My favorite "great idea" that emerged from last week’s Great Ideas Conference, of course, did not come from one of the scheduled sessions. It was an informatil conversation during breakfast. One of the people at my table said that her association had...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 12, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
I had some interesting experiences at last week’s Great Ideas Conference in Orlando, Florida, so I plan on a couple of posts to talk about what I learned. At the beginning of the conference, I noticed that several of the people who had recently attended ASAE...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 3, 2007 | Leadership
I want to add a few points to last week’s post about the complicated versus complex article in Harvard Business review. The article distinguishes between a decision-making context that is complicated, versus one that is complex. Complicated contexts, along with...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 28, 2007 | Change, Conflict, Individual Development, Leadership
I was intrigued by a post on the Signals v. Noise blog today. Someone had asked them a question about how they resolved stalemates during their design process. Jason replied that they rarely have them because for most design decisions or changes, they simply do them....
by Jamie Notter | Nov 26, 2007 | Leadership
Okay, before November ends I want to point out the must-read article of the month in Harvard Business Review. It is by David Snowden and Mary Boone, titled "A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making." The article connects complexity science with...
