by Jamie Notter | May 12, 2015 | Change, Culture, Managing People
I wrote a few months ago about Zappos’ experiment with Holacracy, a system of management that discards the traditional hierarchy in favor of a flexible and dynamic one where employees are more responsible for managing themselves. Zappos (1,500+ employees) is the...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 8, 2015 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
I was talking to a friend yesterday who got into trouble at work because when one of his superiors needed him for something, he wasn’t at his desk. Apparently the organization is “cracking down” and making sure people are at their desks, working,...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 23, 2015 | Culture, Managing People
There is an article in the April Harvard Business Review by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall about how they have transformed the Performance management system at Deloitte. This is a large organization (more than 60,000 employees), and they discovered that their...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 17, 2015 | Conflict, Culture, Managing People
(I published this post originally on LinkedIn) I came across the first account (that I have found, anyway) of Zappos’ emerging experiment with the internal management system of Holacracy. Journalist Aimee Groth wrote a long and detailed account of how the...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 28, 2015 | Inclusion and Diversity, Leadership, Managing People, Truth
It’s not a random collection of your “best” people. We tend to think that putting the smartest, most capable people together on a team is the best decision, but some research I saw reported in the New York Times says otherwise. High IQs of team...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 22, 2015 | Culture, Managing People
Or, at least, you shouldn’t be. On Tuesday I posted about a great article on LinkedIn about a company that gives its employees a MINIMUM number of vacation days they must take each year. They do this because they care about their employees and want them to be...
