by Jamie Notter | Oct 8, 2007 | Leadership, Managing People
Tom Peters has a very interesting point on his blog about the basic principles that underlie all the good management books out there. He argues that the basic principles get less attention than do the newest programs in human resources or management.Re-imagine...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 26, 2007 | Managing People
Today someone posted the following on a listserver to which I subscribe:I have a consulting assignment in a few weeks with a board of aprofessional membership association.While most of the time will be spent in building an annual action planfrom their strategic plan,...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 25, 2007 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
There is yet another good article in the Sloan Management Review this summer, this one focusing on an important problem in project management: silence. I think it goes beyond project management, but the article points to five crucial conversations that simply don’t...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 21, 2007 | Inclusion and Diversity, Managing People
There is a good article in Sloan Management Review (Summer 2007—sorry, the reading has been piling up!) that talks about the challenges of managing diverse teams. According to the authors’ research, diverse teams naturally break into subgroups along demographic lines...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 6, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
Although I don’t need a new book to put on my list, Guy Kawasaki points me to one that looks very interesting: Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (and Most Expensive Liability), by David Marcum and Steven Smith. Guy does an interview with Steven Smith....
by Jamie Notter | Aug 2, 2007 | Conflict, Managing People
There’s an article in Associations Now by Jim Camp about the power of questions. I particularly like one distinction he makes between “good” questions and “bad” ones. The bad ones start with verbs (Isn’t this what you really want? Is there any reason you wouldn’t buy...
