by Jamie Notter | Sep 19, 2014 | Books and Reading, Managing People
One of the most enduring conclusions that I drew based on the research and writing of Humanize was the idea that when it comes to leadership and management, we have no idea what we’re doing. Seriously, most of our “best practices” are completely made...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 8, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
You wouldn’t think of designing a piece of software these days without considering the user experience. There is now a whole cadre of “user experience professionals” (with their own association, of course) who help to ensure that the end product is...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 3, 2014 | Culture, Learning, Managing People
Yesterday I talked about becoming flatter as an organization in order to increase learning and agility. Today’s lesson (also from Sloan Management Review) is about speed. The two are related, of course. One of the reasons we loathe bureaucracy is that it slows...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 29, 2014 | Books and Reading, Leadership, Managing People
This week’s Friday quote is by Peter Block (though I’m reading the quote in Lindy and Maddie’s Open Community book, p. 118): Community is not built by specialized expertise, or great leadership, or improved services; it is built by great citizens....
by Jamie Notter | Jul 28, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
Conventional wisdom says we find those “A Team” players coming out of the top colleges and universities, with the best grades and test scores. Maybe not in every job, mind you, but certainly many, and definitely at a technology company like Google, right?...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 24, 2014 | Learning, Managing People
By now, I assume you’ve heard of Google’s fabled 20% time. They’ve changed it recently, but the original idea was simple: give every engineer at Google 20% of their time to work on something THEY thougth would be both interesting and ultimately...
