by Jamie Notter | Aug 31, 2012 | Managing People, Truth
From Ben Horowitz: Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meetings, processes, email, yammer and even...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 24, 2012 | Managing People
This is one of my notes from the MIX Mashup event. It was something that Terri Kelly, the CEO of W.L. Gore and Associates said. Well, technically she said “associates” and not employees. At Gore, there are only two titles: associate and leader (and...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 21, 2012 | Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
This was one of the key messages from the Mix Mashup that I attended in San Francisco this week. The conference was amazing. I am rarely around so many powerful thinkers. By the end of the day, my brain was exhausted, but in a good way. It was very exciting to be...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 14, 2012 | Managing People
I found myself giving that advice last week at the ASAE Finance, HR, and Business Operations Conference. I was part of a presentation called “The Adaptive CFO” (along with Charlie Tate of Tate and Tyron and Joe Janela, the CFO at the American Pharmacists...
by Jamie Notter | May 30, 2012 | Change, Humanize, Managing People
Maddie and I delivered the first of four webinars about the Humanize book, being offered through our Publisher, Que. This one included 10 tips for being more open as an organization. At the end of the webinar, we had one brave soul ask us a question, and it was an...
by Jamie Notter | May 16, 2012 | Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
In Belgium a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out with Olivier Blanchard. He is ridiculously smart, and a fellow Que author–his book is called Social Media ROI. It is actually quite a nice complement to Humanize (I think Maddie describes it as...