by Jamie Notter | Jun 29, 2005 | Leadership
Admitting Mistakes I spoke to a senior executive this week who said he had been dragged over the coals during a performance review, simply because he had initiated an open and honest discussion with his superiors about where he had fallen short in his goals and why....
by Jamie Notter | Jun 15, 2005 | Conflict, Leadership
One of my clients told me today that she now sees when things are going badly, and knows when to ask for help. What a gift for a leader! Seeing that there is a problem and unilaterally changing perspective or behavior is so critical for effective leadership (and...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 15, 2005 | Conflict, Leadership
One of my clients told me today that she now sees when things are going badly, and knows when to ask for help. What a gift for a leader! Seeing that there is a problem and unilaterally changing perspective or behavior is so critical for effective leadership (and...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 2, 2005 | Leadership
In two separate client situations in the last week, leaders (one Board one staff) told me they were experiencing the age-old adage of it being “lonely at the top.” To some extent, I think it can be lonely at the top of an organization—most smaller organizations boil...
by Jamie Notter | May 26, 2005 | Leadership
The May 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review has a great article titled “Your Company’s Secret Change Agents,” by Richard Tanner Pascale and Jerry Sternin. It points out that all organizations have small pockets of people who are actually doing things better, more...
