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Humanizing Business and Helping CFOs with Change

Jamie Notter

The first is a session that I’ll be doing at BlogWorld Expo in New York City , along with my coauthor Maddie Grant and Amy Ward, who is the Membership Director at the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Creating More Human Organizations. December 2005 (5). November 2005 (7). October 2005 (4).

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Failure is good: it's about learning. Mistakes are bad execution

Jamie Notter

On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. Would your organization do that? Comfort with failure is a critical piece of a human organization. So take a look at your organization’s culture and be honest with how comfortable you are with failure.

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Seen Elsewhere: Resources for Trend Scanning, Gaming, Productivity

Idea Architects

Here are two invaluable resources for doing that: Springwise , an organization spotlighting information gleaned by a network of more than 15,000 "spotters" from around the world. It offers a daily or weekly newsletter as well as a database of ideas, trends, and innovations organized into more than 20 industry categories. Nov 2005 (1).

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Associations Size Up Harvey’s Economic Impact

Associations Now

. “We need to recognize it will be a new normal, a new and different normal for this entire region,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, according to The New York Times. Some preliminary assessments of the storm’s economic impact have started to emerge from organizations in a variety of sectors: Insurance.

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New Revenue Streams Slow Decline of Newspaper Industry

Associations Now

The newspaper industry’s revenue peaked in 2005, and it’s been downhill ever since. Newspaper revenue fell just 2 percent in 2012—thanks, in part, to the inclusion of new revenue sources in NAA’s data. When I see organizations creating new revenue streams that work, it is always because it meets a member need.

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Performance Management

Jamie Notter

Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way –still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews–like these articles in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and Harvard Business Review.

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Leading the way in a flattened world

Plexus Consulting

Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC Two books that go a long way to explaining our world, how we got to where we are, as well as the factors that will determine where we are going, are Guns, Germs and Steel (1999) by Jared Diamond and The World is Flat (2005) by Thomas Friedman. Big questions.

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