by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I’m out on the speaking circuit talking about culture, people frequently come up to me and say how swamped my firm must be with culture projects, because culture is the number one challenge on leaders’ minds today. These comments started about a year ago, but...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
I am writing a chapter for our upcoming book, Culture Change Made Easy, and the focus of the chapter is transparency. Specifically, we focus on the “lagging transparency” culture pattern that we identified in our research. Many cultures suffer from lagging...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Our upcoming book is titled Culture Change Made Easy, and we do believe that it’s easier than most people think (particularly when you can see your culture patterns). That said, we recognize that changing culture takes work, and it’s not without challenges. Here are...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
BOTTOM LINE Getting under the surface of your culture is a better use of your summer down time than organizing the supply cabinet. Start with your core values and then pull out the competing commitments you have under the surface. Those hidden competing commitments...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
BOTTOM LINE: If you’re going to delve into AI (and I think you should), you’d best start your culture change efforts at the same time. Why? Because AI gives you the opportunity to do deep innovation that can unlock tremendous new value, but if your culture is like...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
BOTTOM LINE The reason people roll their eyes at your core values posters is because you’re only living them half way, and that’s because you have commitments inside your culture that contradict or compete with the core value itself. But if you can see the competing...
