by Jamie Notter | Sep 3, 2014 | Culture, Learning, Managing People
Yesterday I talked about becoming flatter as an organization in order to increase learning and agility. Today’s lesson (also from Sloan Management Review) is about speed. The two are related, of course. One of the reasons we loathe bureaucracy is that it slows...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 2, 2014 | Culture, Learning, Uncategorized
I’m always happy to see research that supports what we wrote about in Humanize. The lastest comes from an article in MIT’s Sloan Management Review about success Nestle had with a social media campaign. Two researchers in the UK concluded that a big part of...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 8, 2014 | Culture, Generational Diversity, Learning
Here’s a sneak peek at some of the research we’ve been doing with the Millennial generation. We asked a group of millennials to describe their biggest challenges working with senior management in their organizations, and this quote is priceless: My biggest...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 24, 2014 | Learning, Managing People
By now, I assume you’ve heard of Google’s fabled 20% time. They’ve changed it recently, but the original idea was simple: give every engineer at Google 20% of their time to work on something THEY thougth would be both interesting and ultimately...
by Jamie Notter | May 15, 2014 | Change, Culture, Learning, Truth
Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I’ve made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at really huge companies, some of whom have 100,000...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 7, 2014 | Learning, Managing People
There is none. Sorry to disappoint you, but I think it’s time we admitted the truth here. There is no “correct” organizational structure. Deep down, we crave that right answer, that perfect solution to the problem of structure. Should marketing...
