by Jamie Notter | Jan 16, 2007 | Conflict, Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
At the end of my session Friday, the group asked if I had any final words of wisdom. I like to respond to those requests, even though I don’t have a “stock” answer prepared ahead of time. And although I didn’t make the connection as I was saying it, what I came up...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 8, 2007 | Managing People
Jeff De Cagna sent me an article from the Sloan Management Review about “the science and fiction of meetings” (thanks, Jeff). Here are some data tidbids: The amount of times we spend in meetings doubled between the 1960s and 1980s, but might be tapering off now....
by Jamie Notter | Dec 21, 2006 | Leadership, Managing People
I love Margaret Wheatley’s writing, and she has a great article in Associations Now this month. Really, you should read the whole thing. Herre’s my favorite quote:Many of our frequent and recurring failures in organizations are a consequence of miscomprehending the...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 12, 2006 | Leadership, Managing People
Here are some words of “wisdom” from an article in Forum magazine:CEOs should delegate and should avoid micromanaging. But they should never fail to supervise. The buck stops with the CEO. They ultimately are responsible, not the person to whom a matter was delegated....
by Jamie Notter | Dec 8, 2006 | Announcements, Managing People
Next month I will be speaking at ASAE & The Center’s annual “Great Ideas Conference.” This time I am doing a session about staff meetings. The title of the session is “Turning Staff Meetings into Strategic Conversations.” This session started with some work I did...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 28, 2006 | Managing People
Just a little more about yesterday’s post about voice and trust. I did a training for a small group of Fellows at a Federal agency last week. They made reference to the fact that at a large and important meeting recently, they were not permitted to introduce...
