Jamie Notter

AUGUST 31, 2011

It reminded me of another important post by Barry Oshry on the Seeing Systems blog on the topic, interestingly enough, of gender differences and championship soccer. In that post Oshry makes the point that all systems express themselves through both love and power. The taboo of Power systems is anything that constrains our freedom.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 10, 2012

I know we get a lot of coverage of Humanize in the context of social media, since we apply the lessons of social media to how we run our organizations. It is ultimately about creating better organizations, more powerful organizations, organizations where people WANT to come to work–human organizations.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 25, 2011

We so desperately want our organizations to be machines, where the “driver” can get behind the wheel and move that needle. Moving needles does indeed happen, but needles are actually much easier to control when you’re lower in the organization, focused on your particular domain. But our organizations are not machines.

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AvidXchange: Association Management

AUGUST 17, 2023

If you’ve got the right technology in place, your systems and processes can be more automated so that people can truly check out for a little bit and not have to always be plugged in. Maegan also brings decades of community association management experience to the table as she began her career as a community manager in 2006.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

From 2006 to 2017, CareSource’s employee base grew 300 percent, and recently, its longtime CEO retired. To deal with this upheaval, the nonprofit turned to change-management coaching, which it says saved the organization millions of dollars and helped senior leaders keep employees engaged. overtime and consultants).

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 3, 2012

You impact the system, so strengthen your emotional intelligence. It’s going to grow organically and change and morph along the way. In most organizations, we’re not so good at that. Think about it: what’s the one thing we all hate in organizations? Effort will be unstable, so learn how to be generative.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 21, 2011

“We Are Not Machines” makes the basic argument for creating more human organizations, which is quite different from the organizations we have today that were based on the machine model. That mindset holds firmly today as we have organizations with chains of command, units, divisions, silos, directors, outputs, etc.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 11, 2012

Speaking at a leadership conference for volunteers this weekend, I was reminded why some organizations struggle to get volunteers. If your mindset and systems are based on having long-term employees (i.e., If your mindset and systems are based on having long-term employees (i.e., Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 17, 2012

I’m all for pushing conflict down in the organization–get the people who have the conflict to actually resolve it, instead of letting them push it up the chain. Conflict is a natural part of every system. Forcing these organic dynamics into our mechanical processes is a recipe for failure. December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 24, 2012

I explain in the book how these forces affect the value systems of Millennials in ways that I think will show up throughout their whole lives. In Humanize we argue that becoming more human will allow organizations to tap into potential that our current, mechanical organizations are letting go to waste. Every generation.

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Idea Architects

MAY 21, 2012

What if the these percentages are not because of some predetermined tendency of the way individuals act, but is instead a logical result of the systems and processes we put into place? You might just find that 80% of your systems are focused on enabling only 20% of your potential participants or contributors. Dec 2006 (3).

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 21, 2012

Most were in agreement that there was great power available in the periphery of our organizations, we just needed to figure out how to set that power free. Interestingly, however, the responsibility I am thinking of here exists more at the center of the organization than at the periphery. Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 13, 2012

Yet that is certainly the default mode in organizations. They change and grow over time, particularly as you start interacting with other people in the system. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (9).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 16, 2012

We have come to expect innovation in our world in many areas, yet we are content to come to work and face practices and systems that are fifty or a hundred years old. We have a couple of really big problems, that hit almost every organization, across all industries. We’ve developed a humanize assessment for your organization.).

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Jamie Notter

MAY 16, 2012

I used an example in his book during my session that delved into some detail about how you humanize your organization (more on that in another post). But in my first presentation, I made the point that many organizations fall short when it comes to clarity. I think we need more discipline in our organizations. image credit.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 19, 2012

Tensions in the system–don’t shield associates from that. The organization is not real. You don’t do things for the organization. what we do better than anything is set people up for failure in organizations. Sophisticated incentive systems. The Edge To Edge Organization Panel.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I recently added it to my bio to describe what I do around leadership in organizations. That means working with a lot of people on a lot of different issues, but all with the goal of increasing the system’s capacity to shape its future. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). July 2006 (5).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 24, 2012

But even in an organization as flat as that, Kelly was concerned about the idea of shielding employees from tensions. However, this can easily evolve into the manager taking too much on and insulating the employee from some important realities in the system. Next post: Creating More Human Organizations. December 2006 (10).

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2017

Not conference experiences that engage the dumb, novelty-seeking portion of our brain’s limbic system inducing temporary pleasure. Conference organizers, planning teams, and event producers aim to top last year’s event with a bigger-name speaker, larger budgets, trendy technology and greater wows. Read on…). Sniff, snort…wahoo!

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This is, quite simply, the capacity to include difference in your organization. Easier said than done, yet critical for innovation and becoming more human as an organization. ” Generative organizations will also fine tune their processes to maximize collaboration. Creating More Human Organizations. October 2006 (8).

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Shouldn’t I like the fact that we allow the system at large to have committees to get work done? And I don’t think it’s a good venue for developing true, systemic leadership. When we create islands of control in the form of committees, we are not honoring the integrity of the system. May the best model win.

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In complex systems, data are critically important–yet rarely tell the whole story. We’ve been giving lip service to “learning organizations” for decades, but I don’t think we’ve figured it out. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It’s the systemic conditions that caused and sustain the forest fire, so that single spark that set it off really isn’t the issue. Creating More Human Organizations. Movements are almost always organic in nature and the strongest ones are formed around ideas, not individuals. December 2006 (10). July 2006 (5).

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Jamie Notter

MAY 11, 2012

They will then try to sell you on their new dynamic, nimble, constantly evolving, “living plan document” system. I think it’s more likely that our organizations are succeeding despite the way we manage them, not because of it. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). July 2006 (5).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 22, 2011

The book is fundamentally a challenge to make our organizations more human. For decades we all have been tolerating less-than-ideal organizations that have been modeled after machines. The four elements are: Open (decentralized, systems thinking, ownership…). Creating More Human Organizations. December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 7, 2012

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. How open is your organization with what it is learning from these failures? Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 23, 2012

But the lessons are applicable more broadly in organizations. Worst of all, most of them have no idea what the problems plaguing their organizations actually are. Even the most successful organizations can rarely make a solid case that their success is actually CAUSED by the way they manage their organization.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 17, 2012

The time has come for any organization using volunteers to pre-qualify them with self-guided virtual tutorials they can take to amass the basic information required for effective involvement. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 4, 2012

Now it’s time to expand the circle of people and networks who start using the book and really start changing our world, one (human) organization at a time. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (9).

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 12, 2011

But I know we’ll move forward in a way that acknowledges the more decentralized nature of the system. Maybe it is, but maybe it isn’t, and we’d be able to determine that if we understood our systems better. Within our systems, what change is needed? Not when so much is changing. False idolatry reigns.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 9, 2011

When we want to build an entire system that is more trusting, we sometimes forget that we can start that by not telling white lies, by actually saying what we are thinking, and by standing up for our values. It would also be a great discussion book for leaders, managers, and employees within an organization. December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

More nonprofits need to explore what it means to hold their organizations accountable for meaningful change in the trajectory of a client, however they define it. Measure different things, and at different intervals, with the intention of actually learning more about your system and how it operates. December 2006 (10).

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Leading Learning

MAY 24, 2022

During those 15 years, we’ve worked with a lot of organizations, done a lot of research, published hundreds of articles and podcasts along with numerous reports , hosted more than a hundred Webinars , and run multiple events , online and off. Just use the comments section at the end to share your thoughts. The Surge of Video.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 30, 2012

It’s more of an underlying concern I have about organizations in general, and maybe the association community in particular: I am concerned that we love great ideas, but we don’t know how to actually do them. This comes from our deeply rooted mechanical approach to organizations. We don’t know how to BE great.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 26, 2012

Leadership, as I’ve said before, is a system capacity, which seems critical for an issue like this. And the gorilla in this conversation for member organizations is that there is not a universal context that all members are experiencing at the same time. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8).

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 9, 2012

It is an economy in which organizations are nimble and agile and continually offering new value to customers and delivering it sooner. They are not organized for continuous innovation. Let’s start creating organizations that are more open , trustworthy , generative , and courageous. Creating More Human Organizations.

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 27, 2018

In this short presentation about cybersecurity, the speakers did a great job showing the audience how easily it is for a hacker to get into an organization’s system, take control of their data and steal their information. The costs associated with an attack usually are not thought of and can bring an organization down.

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