Those of you who know me well know that I am gearing up for my annual “Ride Allegheny” bike ride. This ride started nine years ago when a group of my friends in the neighborhood were looking for a multi-day…
September 8th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | ContinuedArchive for Jamie Notter
Jamie is Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness at Management Solutions Plus in Rockville, MD. He helps leaders make more powerful organizations by actually working through the tough issues.
Thick Value versus Thin Value
Thanks to Eric Brown, I discovered this blog post from Umair Haque that talks about the difference between thick value and thin value. With the economy the way it is and stories of failed business executives getting big bonuses, there…
August 10th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Do You Have Time to Care About Learning?
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) published an article in their magazine recently by Tony Bingham about informal learning. These are training and development folks, so obviously their career focus has been on delivering training events–formal learning. But…
August 7th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Understanding What Drives Your Behavior
Thanks to Jeff De Cagna for pointing out this interesting article by venture capitalist Paul Graham about “managers schedule” versus “makers schedule.” By “maker” he is referring to people like software programmers and writers. They organize their schedule very differently…
August 3rd, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Vacation Poetry
Change at the Beach By Jamie Notter As I eclipse the dune The reality hits me: The beach has changed. Inlet shifted. Tide lines moved. Landscape altered. Wise locals nod knowingly To the great storm That means nothing to me….
July 26th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Transparency, Clarity, and Trust (and Truth)
John Maeda and Becky Bermont (from the Rhode Island School of Design) wrote a nice blog post about transparency and clarity. I’ve written about transparency before, suggesting, as some others have, that radical transparency would have value. I have implied…
July 22nd, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Get My Generational Ebook for Free
I am feeling generous and have decided to give away my ebook on Generational Diversity in the Workplace for free, at least for a limited time. I wrote the book in 2007. It’s about 60 pages and it covers the…
July 15th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Recognizing Respect
I noticed in my Google Analytics the other day that one of the most popular keywords for finding my blog is the phrase “what does respect look like.” I did a brief post on that in October 2007, pointing out…
July 14th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Honoring the Freak Flag
My friend Joe Gerstandt is a proud purveyor of the freak flag. I’ve been reading Joe’s stuff for a while now (and it’s awesome, by the way), and I will admit that the first few times he made reference to…
July 10th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
The Downside of Control: Brittle
Smart guy Joe Gerstandt referred me to another smart guy, Dave Pollard, who wrote an interesting blog post about groups actually resolving their own inadequacies (wouldn’t that be nice?!). In the post, he talks about complex adaptive systems: Nature’s way…
July 8th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
It’s All About Trust
Charles Seybold writes a project management blog. Apparently the other day he went to an nifty little workshop filled with startup CEOs and they talked about how to build an effective organizational culture. He was struck by how much the…
July 2nd, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Set Your People Free
In Gary Hamel’s book, he suggests three areas on which to focus when creating a more human organization, and one of them is “too much management, too little freedom.” As I said in my previous post, most people will agree…
June 30th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Authenticity a Buzzword? Try Truth
I heard someone say recently that they were already sick of the word authenticity. It’s obviously being discussed a LOT in social media spheres. I’ve talked about it here as well. I think it’s a great word, but when any…
June 26th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Leadership is Not Comfortable
I said last week that I would “push back” against some of the things I learned at ASAE & The Center’s CEO Symposium. There were times during the presentations where I felt the speakers made some generically accurate statements, yet…
June 25th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Pithy Quotes that Actually Suck
Maddie shared an interesting opinion on Twitter the other day: It’s true there might be a bit too many people putting up pithy quotes on Twitter. It can be irritating. But as I think about it, SOME of the quotes…
June 24th, 2009 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
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