by Jamie Notter | Sep 24, 2014 | Culture, Truth
I’ve always had a problem with branding. All this talk of a “brand promise” and a “relationship” the company has with me never resonated with me as a consumer, which is then all tied into advertisements–you know, those things that...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 23, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Truth
As I typed in the title of this blog post, I asked myself, “Why would I have the need to say that out loud?!” But I do. Because in organizations, many of us are miserable with the way things are, and instead of changing it, we simply conclude that this is...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 11, 2014 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Truth
In Chapter 5 of Humanize, we actually go back a few centuries in our analysis, pointing out that the entire western world has been looking at the universe in a very mechanistic way since the 1600s, and we have Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries to blame. They...
by Jamie Notter | May 15, 2014 | Change, Culture, Learning, Truth
Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I’ve made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at really huge companies, some of whom have 100,000...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 28, 2014 | Leadership, Truth
I make this point all the time in my speaking and consulting, yet I don’t think I have ever blogged about it directly. We all want trust. We want to be able to trust our colleagues in the workplace, and we certainly want to be trusted by them. A...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 13, 2014 | Culture, Truth
Four years ago, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted a slide deck about their culture. It was originally created as an internal document, but he shared it, and it’s now been viewed several million times. The deck (and Netfilx’s culture) actually get their own...
