by Jamie Notter | Nov 29, 2019 | Change, Transparency, Truth
I was listening to a podcast the other day with Esther Duflo, a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, who was talking about the importance of empirical evidence when you’re trying to change things (in her context, reducing global poverty). A lot of economists...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 30, 2018 | Change, Culture, Truth
Here’s a typical scenario. You want to create a stronger culture, so you ask your people to articulate some kind of ideal culture. They tell you all the aspects they wish were present in your culture, and probably complain about some of the problems they now face, and...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 7, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
When organizations do work on their culture, they frequently want to rush to action. When we show them the results of our culture assessment, for example, it often leads immediately to a discussion about what should be done about it. Our Agility scores are more...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 26, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Truth
Services from Fully-Verified are not all that takes in a startup. There are several questions to be answered. The answer to the question about the CEO’s role in culture has a bit of a paradox in it, so let me ask two more detailed questions to get to the point. First...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2018 | Culture, Learning, Truth
This week I released a new online training program in conflict resolution, and one of the lessons in the course talks about “valuing stories over truth.” People are sometimes surprised by that notion. After all, in this age of fake news, doesn’t the truth matter? Of...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 16, 2015 | Culture, Humanize, Truth
Although every organization is unique, nearly all of them share a core approach that is based in one, single field: Engineering. Consider this simple definition of engineering: Engineering combines the fields of science and maths to solve real world problems that...
