by Jamie Notter | Apr 25, 2007 | Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
Here is some more from that Sloan article that talks about good conflict and bad conflict. Although I don’t think their distinction between “task” and “relationship” conflict was clear enough, that wasn’t the main point of the article. Most of it was about perceptions...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 20, 2007 | Change, Culture, Leadership
There is a nice piece about the strength of organizational culture in the Sloan Management Review. Researchers looked at “spinoff” companies to see if they could measure corporate culture and whether the spinoff companies had cultures that were different from the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 17, 2007 | Leadership
Scott Briscoe has an interview with Bill George in Associations Now regarding a new leadership book he has out titled True North. His comments resonate with the notion of “distributed leadership” that I wrote about earlier:You know, there are leaders throughout...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 12, 2007 | Change, Individual Development, Leadership
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradivarius just outside the Metro escalators at the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 9, 2007 | Conflict, Leadership
In Washington Smart CEO this month there is a brief article that gives an example of a company that is implementing a bit of what I was talking about in my Great Ideas presentation at Marco Island in January. There I was talking about better staff meetings, which...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 3, 2007 | Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
Those who know me recognize that I don’t particularly watch TV. But I do flip through the stations occasionally, and the other day I came across the “Dog Whisperer” show on the National Geographic Channel. This chronicles the work of Cesar Millan who is a dog trainer...
