by Jamie Notter | Oct 2, 2013 | Conflict, Leadership, Learning
Today I am delivering a pilot version of a workshop on strategic risk and decision making for management teams, co-delivered with Elizabeth Engel and Leslie White. Leslie is leading the discussion on risk and Elizabeth is digging into how strategic thinking (as...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 10, 2013 | Learning
I’ve read a few articles and blog posts about the death of Google’s famous 20% time. If you’ve heard me speak on Humanize in the last year or two, you’ll remember me citing Google’s now (apparently) defunct policy as an example of both...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 23, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Learning
That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): “There is just one problem. Best practices are evil.” To be honest, I think most people skip over the page-and-a-half that explains it,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 12, 2013 | Learning
It’s been a few days since I left the ASAE meeting in Atlanta. I had a great time, as usual, but there has been one issue that has been bouncing around in my brain since I left. Towards the end of the meeting, I saw this tweet from association exec (and big...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 26, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize, Learning
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I’ll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It’s from the section on creating a culture that understands and values learning. One...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 15, 2013 | Leadership, Learning
If you don’t know Eric Lanke, you should. He’s the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he writes on the best CEO-authored blogs out there. I’ve known him for several years now, and take some pride in...
