by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2009 | Culture, Leadership, Learning, Managing People
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I expect leadership to exist everywhere in the...
by Jamie Notter | May 26, 2009 | Learning, Managing People
Kevin Holland pointed to an interview in the New York Times with Eduardo Castro-Wright, who is Vice Chairman of Wal-Mart. Castro-wright was somewhat critical of the status quo in the business world, including taking shots at vision statements, off-site retreats, and...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 6, 2009 | Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to Etienne Laliberté of the Contrarian Thinking blog for including me among a list of favorite blog posts–not only because it was nice and might have diverted a few more people to my Strategy in Four Words or Less Post, but because it diverted ME to a...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 6, 2009 | Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to Etienne Laliberté of the Contrarian Thinking blog for including me among a list of favorite blog posts–not only because it was nice and might have diverted a few more people to my Strategy in Four Words or Less Post, but because it diverted ME to a...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 9, 2008 | Leadership, Managing People, Social Media
Given the push back I get when I suggest thinking about why we keep salary figures secret, I wonder what the reaction will be to the piece in the October Harvard Business Review where Dave Balter, CEO of BzzAgent describes his approach to what he calls "radical...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 1, 2008 | Managing People
I caught a little big of flack a few months ago when I suggested total transparency around financial information in organizations, which included telling everyone what everyone else made. A few people pointed out to me that it was easy for me to throw this gauntlet...
