by Jamie Notter | Nov 14, 2011 | Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership, Learning, Managing People
Whenever I get some time to think deeply about things related to the workplace, like how do we make work better, or what is leadership, or what is management, then I end up inescapably coming to the conclusion that is the title of this post: We have no idea what...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 8, 2011 | Change, Learning
Thanks to David Patt, whose comment on an Acronym post pointed me to a really good article by Matthew Forti about measurement for nonprofits. The Acronym post was from Scott Briscoe, building off of Joe Rominiecki’s notion of “loveable losers,” those...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 30, 2011 | Humanize, Learning
With all my book writing, it’s been hard to keep up with my reading, but I want to point out the excellent issue of Harvard Business Review from April of this year on failure. Not surprisingly, most of the articles about failure have a common theme: learning....
by Jamie Notter | Jun 27, 2011 | Humanize, Learning
First, I want to point out a cool new feed that Maddie created related to our book, Humanize. Maddie is an amazing curator. She had to put on hold her “link love monthly” posts on SocialFishing because they took too much time (but those posts would keep me...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 10, 2011 | Individual Development, Learning
I am a big fan of Robert Kegan. He is a specialist at Harvard in adult development, and I first started following his work during my graduate program in Organization Development at Georgetown back in 2001. One of the main points that he and his colleagues make is...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 1, 2011 | Change, Learning
As I mentioned last week on the SocialFish blog, social organizations are serious about learning. Not just learning at conferences, but deep organizational learning. While I doubt there are many who would argue against me on that (who's going to say that learning...
