by Jamie Notter | Aug 7, 2009 | Change, Culture, Learning
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) published an article in their magazine recently by Tony Bingham about informal learning. These are training and development folks, so obviously their career focus has been on delivering training...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 8, 2009 | Leadership, Learning
Smart guy Joe Gerstandt referred me to another smart guy, Dave Pollard, who wrote an interesting blog post about groups actually resolving their own inadequacies (wouldn’t that be nice?!). In the post, he talks about complex adaptive systems: Nature’s way...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 24, 2009 | Learning
Maddie shared an interesting opinion on Twitter the other day: It's true there might be a bit too many people putting up pithy quotes on Twitter. It can be irritating. But as I think about it, SOME of the quotes on Twitter are inspiring to me. So what's the...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2009 | Culture, Leadership, Learning, Managing People
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I expect leadership to exist everywhere in the...
by Jamie Notter | May 26, 2009 | Learning, Managing People
Kevin Holland pointed to an interview in the New York Times with Eduardo Castro-Wright, who is Vice Chairman of Wal-Mart. Castro-wright was somewhat critical of the status quo in the business world, including taking shots at vision statements, off-site retreats, and...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 29, 2009 | Learning
I spent the last two days at the ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership Technology Conference. In the "old days" (a couple of years ago) I enjoyed going to this conference mostly because as a blogger I could connect with my colleagues who were...
