by Jamie Notter | May 14, 2013 | Leadership, Strategy, Truth
I suppose I don’t need ANOTHER reason to dislike strategic plans, but I was reminded of one the other day. I heard a volunteer of an association dutifully reporting to a chapter on how the national organization was making progress on it’s strategic goals....
by Jamie Notter | Apr 25, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Truth
At a conference the other day, Jeff De Cagna was making a presentation about ways in which the association community needs to think differently. He was covering topics from his ebook, Associations Unorthodox. I liked some of his provocations, including transforming...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 18, 2013 | Culture, Humanize, Social Media, Truth
I am growing weary of the multitude of posts out there talking about humanizing your brand, but it’s not because they’re using the word humanize (Maddie and I don’t claim to own that term in any way). There are two main reasons these posts are...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 23, 2013 | Books and Reading, Truth
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those who Tell–and Live–the Best Stories Will Rule the Future by Jonah Sachs Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Maddie interviewed Jonah Sachs for an NTEN “Meet the Author” webinar, and once she read the book gave...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 17, 2013 | Leadership, Managing People, Truth
My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically significant correlation between a decrease in highway...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 31, 2012 | Managing People, Truth
From Ben Horowitz: Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meetings, processes, email, yammer and even...
