by Jamie Notter | Dec 20, 2010 | Change, Learning
We love to focus on the beginning and the end. We like to develop our strategic plans, and we like to have our celebrations or evaluation meetings. But we don't often like what happens in the middle. That's where it isn't working, or it's not done, or...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 14, 2010 | Change, Learning, Truth
I did some work last week with a volunteer group that was half way through it's year of activity. They were at a point where they wanted to look back at how the experience has been going so they could make adjustments for the second half of the year. So at the...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 5, 2010 | Culture, Learning
Peter Senge wrote the Fifth Discipline twenty years ago, but it's a book with amazing staying power. If you haven't read it, you should. The big lesson in the book, for which Senge is still known, is systems thinking (system thinking is the fifth discipline)....
by Jamie Notter | Oct 26, 2010 | Learning, Managing People
Ask a random person on the street, and they'll support collaboration. Of course it's a good idea when people get together to work on something, solve a problem, help each other out. I'll go out on a limb and suggest that you, reading this post, agree that...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 30, 2010 | Individual Development, Leadership, Learning, Truth
The opening round of ASAE recap blog posts have been a bit of a downer. This does not surprise me given the conversations I was having with friends of colleagues towards the end. For one reason or another, the meeting just wasn't as good as the last several years....
by Jamie Notter | Jul 26, 2010 | Leadership, Learning
Despite the title of this post, let me start by saying I am skeptical of our culture of continuous growth and continuous improvement. There's nothing wrong with improvement, I suppose, but it has been translated into a culture where we always need to win, we...
