by Jamie Notter | Jan 25, 2013 | Announcements, Free Resources, Humanize, Individual Development, Managing People
This year I’m launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I’m launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I’m calling the series “Making It...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 17, 2013 | Leadership, Managing People, Truth
My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically significant correlation between a decrease in highway...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 8, 2013 | Conflict, Consulting, Managing People
People have been complaining about “silos” in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (turf battles, lack of cooperation,...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 12, 2012 | Consulting, Individual Development, Managing People
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way–still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews–like these articles in the New York Times,...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 11, 2012 | Humanize, Managing People
Valve is a computer software company that’s on my list to research more, because it definitely exhibits “humanize” tendencies. It’s received a lot of attention for its new employee handbook, which is not the traditional, dry list of policies...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 19, 2012 | Change, Culture, Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article–from 12 years ago no less–that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an article I need to read. Actually, I was kind...
