by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2007 | Culture, Individual Development, Leadership
Thanks to Chris Bailey for linking to my recent post quoting the poet David Whyte. I included that quote because the word “conversation” had leapt out at me. Interestingly, it was the word “belong” that jumped out for Chris.When an actual spirit of belonging is...
by Jamie Notter | May 17, 2007 | Books and Reading, Leadership
The spring issue of the Journal of Association Leadership is out, and it contains an article that summarizes ASAE & The Center’s Seven Measures of Success research report. I skimmed the article (having already read the report), but a sentence at the end caught my...
by Jamie Notter | May 16, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
The cover story of Associations Now this month has a psychological bent to it: it’s about confronting your past in order to create a better future. The author, psychiatrist Keith Ablow, argues this is true for both individuals and organizations. I agree. Our brains...
by Jamie Notter | May 15, 2007 | Leadership
A Fast Company reporter was interviewing the CEO of JetBlue airways for a story about how the airline will recover from the bad press it received earlier this year as it stranded passengers for days during an ice storm. Delta and American stranded passengers, too, of...
by Jamie Notter | May 3, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
Here’s some more from Sutton’s book about assholes, that also ties into the post before that about the “next level.” Sutton has a section about “how to stop your inner jerk from getting out.” In it, he points to a problem inherent in our hypercompetitive, constant...
by Jamie Notter | May 2, 2007 | Conflict, Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to Greg Melia for his excellent comments on my post about Good and Bad conflict. I continue to see people writing about it this way, and I’m beginning to think I need to start writing something about this (oh no! Not another book!). The most recent example is...
