by Jamie Notter | Apr 8, 2019 | Engagement, Learning
Okay, not ALL benchmark data are useless, but they are when it comes to culture and employee engagement. In our recent book on engagement, we have a whole chapter dedicated to gathering the right data, and we make the case for basically ignoring culture and engagement...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2018 | Culture, Learning, Truth
This week I released a new online training program in conflict resolution, and one of the lessons in the course talks about “valuing stories over truth.” People are sometimes surprised by that notion. After all, in this age of fake news, doesn’t the truth matter? Of...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 22, 2016 | Culture, Individual Development, Learning, Managing People, Technology
With all the talk of “big data,” I’m always amazed at the opportunities we squander to work with small data. I was working with a client recently that has a really strong culture. They’ve been working very hard at it for more than a year now,...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 10, 2015 | Announcements, Books and Reading, Change, Leadership, Learning
Elizabeth Engel from Spark Consulting LLC has a great new white paper out on applying the Lean Startup methodology in the association environment. I only discovered Lean Startup when I heard Eric Ries (author of the book, The Lean Startup) speak at SXSW earlier this...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 9, 2015 | Change, Learning
For obvious reasons, we care a lot about “results” in the business context. Like all good things, however, results has a bit of a shadow side. By focusing so much on the results, we often will seek to get (or at least try to prove) results at the expense...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 31, 2015 | Learning, Strategy
I’m reading The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, and I can’t believe I haven’t read it until now. It’s the best business book I’ve read in a long time. I promise a full review once I’m done, but I couldn’t wait to point out one...
