by Jamie Notter | Jan 20, 2015 | Change, Managing People
Everyone knows that the speed of change has gone through the roof these days, but that’s not precisely what I’m talking about when I suggest you’re falling behind. I’m talking about management. I don’t think people realize that...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 30, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
One of my idols is Gary Hamel, and he declared this year that bureaucracy must die. I’m sure he’ll get a lot of support for that sentiment, since we have been hating bureaucracy since we invented the word (it has ALWAYS had a pejorative undertone), and we...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 30, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Note that the title says “easier,” not “easy.” It’s rarely easy to fire people. In most cases the person that needs to go is a good person, and probably does a decent job–just not the job you need right now in this particular...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 24, 2014 | Books and Reading, Managing People
This week’s Friday quote comes from The Alliance, a book written by Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn (and Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh). The book builds off of an HBR article that I wrote about last year, where Hoffman talks about creating “Tours of...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 16, 2014 | Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Casinos have always taken care of their high rollers. They watch them closely, so if they have a bad night on the casino floor they can immediately do something like comp their room or give them free chance to a dream jackpot or tickets to a show. But with technology,...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 30, 2014 | Change, Culture, Managing People
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser If you want a thriving organization you need to innovate. If you want to innovate you have to have a culture that supports it. In a recent discussion on ASAE’s online community Collaborate contributors talked about association innovation,...
