Emotions Are Contagious
Tony Schwartz wrote a fantastic post on HBR today on Ten principles to live by in today's complex world. All of them are spot on, so read the whole thing, but I'll focus on one of them that jumped out at me: Emotions are ...
Book Review: The Speed of Trust
Trust has been on my radar screen for a long time, but that is because I come from the field of conflict resolution (here's the article I wrote about it). In the business world, trust hasn’t captured much attention. Ther ...
More Problems With Control
I am not a fan of the idea of control. I actually hadn't given it too much thought prior to a few years ago when the theme of "clarity over control" emerged as a part of the social media revolution. My post back in Febru ...
Learning and Theories
With all my book writing, it's been hard to keep up with my reading, but I want to point out the excellent issue of Harvard Business Review from April of this year on failure. Not surprisingly, most of the articles about ...
Note that "Learned" is Past Tense
First, I want to point out a cool new feed that Maddie created related to our book, Humanize. Maddie is an amazing curator. She had to put on hold her "link love monthly" posts on SocialFishing because they took too much ...
Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy
Note: when I used to have my own consulting business (cleverly named Notter Consulting), I used to post book reviews periodically to my website (before blogs even!). I've decided to migrate them over to this blog for pos ...
Your Leadership Business Model
The economic news these days does not induce a lot of smiles. I was at a presentation last night given to members of one of the associations I manage about economic indicators, and the analyst joked at the beginning of h ...
Welcome to GMJN 2.0
After six years, I finally redesigned the blog! True, many people read the blog posts in a reader, so they don't even see the actual blog site, so redesign never made it up on my priority list. But it's not 2006 any more ...
Brain Development and Complexity
I am a big fan of Robert Kegan. He is a specialist at Harvard in adult development, and I first started following his work during my graduate program in Organization Development at Georgetown back in 2001. One of the mai ...
Learning and Change
As I mentioned last week on the SocialFish blog, social organizations are serious about learning. Not just learning at conferences, but deep organizational learning. While I doubt there are many who would argue against m ...