The Corporate Culture Survival Guide: Sense and Nonsense About Culture Change by Edgar Schein Jossey-Bass, 1999 Clients often come to me knowing that something needs to change in order to achieve better performance, but they just aren’t sure what. The specific answer will vary for each client, but more often than not, the area for [...]
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I am a big fan of Dan Pink’s writing, and the first book that grabbed me was A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. Growing up we were told the professions with the most status, respect, and earning potential were ones like lawyers, doctors, engineers, or accountants. Younger readers [...]
Continue ReadingTrust 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. There are a few books about trust that relate to workplace issues, although I found them [...]
Continue ReadingNote: 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 posterity so keep your eyes out every so often for a book review, even if the book isn’t [...]
Continue ReadingI am not sure if it is bad luck to buy a book before you have actually finished writing it, but if so, I'm too late! The book that Maddie Grant and I have been writing for the last six months is almost done (we're finishing up the last couple of chapters in the next [...]
Continue ReadingJoe Gerstandt first connected me to the work of Nilofer Merchant, so I started following her on Twitter and reading what she was writing on the Harvard Business Review blog. Then a few weeks ago I finally ordered her book, because it connects to the writing I'm doing with Maddie for our upcoming book, Humanize. [...]
Continue ReadingI can't believe it took me so long to read this book. It is by Henry Mintzberg, who is a well known business professor and author who teaches at McGill University in Montreal. His Ph.D. is from the business school at MIT, just in case you thought he was just some random blogger or something [...]
Continue ReadingGiven my attraction to both issues of truth and leadership, I couldn't resist getting this book on my iPad, though, in fact, Kouzes and Posner are established leadership authors, and their book from the 1980s, The Leadership Challenge, was always one of my favorites. It talked about encouraging the heart, sharing power with others, learning from [...]
Continue ReadingOkay, so I really don't do a regular "what I'm reading" post on this blog, for a couple of reasons. First, the stuff that I really love that I read on the internet tends to make its way into my blog posts (and I link to them there). Second, I already put most of my [...]
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Jamie is a Vice President at MSP where he leads the consulting division. 
