by Jamie Notter | Jul 7, 2015 | Culture, Strategy, Truth
This post was originally published on the Switch and Shift blog There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard about companies who might have chosen a sound...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 31, 2015 | Learning, Strategy
I’m reading The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, and I can’t believe I haven’t read it until now. It’s the best business book I’ve read in a long time. I promise a full review once I’m done, but I couldn’t wait to point out one...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 15, 2015 | Strategy, Truth
Everyone knows that you have to set goals in order to be successful, right? There are data to back up that assertion. I don’t remember the exact source now, but I remember hearing a study that saw a correlation with significantly higher salaries for people who...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 12, 2014 | Books and Reading, Culture, Strategy
Today’s Friday Quote is from an article in Harvard Business Review by Darrell Rigby on the need to fuse the digital and brick-and-mortar operations of retail. It’s a useful reminder that organizations–still–are putting themselves at the center...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 4, 2014 | Change, Culture, Strategy
If you want real change, then start with culture. Let me run some if/then suppositions by you: If you want to change your business model, then you need to change your culture. If you want to build an online community, then you need to change your culture. If you want...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 25, 2014 | Change, Culture, Strategy
I am a huge fan of Clay Shirky, and he wrote this post about the death of newspapers over on Medium. Then today I see an HBR blog post about how publishing is NOT dead. I’m not sure the two articles are as contradictory as they sound, but there was one line in...
