Engaged People are the Result of a Culture of Trust This is part Two of Two on driving culture change through an organization. Review Part One Most leaders today are looking for growth through innovation from an engaged workplace culture. And yet, most companies are struggling with the level of engagement and creativity that is… [Continue Reading]
Corporate Culture Change: Cornerstone of Engagement
November 11, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Seeking Culture Change and Employee Engagement? Achieving growth and innovation is on everyone’s minds these days. Increasingly leaders are seeking culture change and employee engagement as the answer. In this era, being in the driver’s seat requires extreme leadership. It’s hard to navigate the whitewater of global competition, workers who don’t like to be told… [Continue Reading]
Cultures That Drive Innovation – The Latest Research
October 28, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Innovation seems to be the topic du jour. Lately, it’s been on the minds of every executive we’ve been speaking with: How do we continue to grow in a hard economy? How do we create more opportunities with limited resources? How do we ensure new products and services are meeting the changing – and often… [Continue Reading]
A Tale of Two Corporate Cultures
October 20, 2011 • Leave a Comment
A Tale of Two Cultures Jen Luna’s life went from miserable to happy almost overnight. She didn’t lose weight, get married, or have a baby. She quit her job, (or more to the point, she quit a bad boss.) Her story is an eye-opening one of two corporate cultures that illustrates why Gallup researchers found… [Continue Reading]
Why Innovation is a Culture Thing
October 13, 2011 • Leave a Comment
New Ideas + Effective Implementation + Positive Impact on Business = Innovation
How “Moneyball” Can Improve Productivity In Your Corporate Culture
October 6, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Improve productivity–lessons from America’s pass-time The popular book/film Moneyball recounts the unconventional journey of Billy Beane’s transformation of the Oakland A’s baseball team who made a winning formula of recognizing and utilizing overlooked players and using data to measure performance. America’s companies can improve productivity by using some of these same techniques. Because we have a… [Continue Reading]
Does Organizational Health Really Affect the Bottom Line?
September 29, 2011 • Leave a Comment
In June 2011, McKinsey featured an article in their quarterly newsletter entitled “Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage.” In it, they state that “focusing on organizational health—the ability of your organization to align, execute, and renew itself faster than your competitors can—is just as important as focusing on the traditional drivers of business performance. Organizational… [Continue Reading]
A Peek Inside Corporate Culture at Dropbox, Zynga and Groupon
September 22, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Note from Corporate Culture Pros: Sometimes wisdom comes from unexpected sources – for example, from fresh, young, and not-jaded CEOs whose ambitions have created new ways of interacting with old ideas, like sharing information, saving money, and playing games. In the meantime they have built company cultures that can effectively “herd cats” – ie, bring… [Continue Reading]
Corporate culture and work-life balance
September 15, 2011 • 6 Comments
Should corporate culture and work-life be legislated? Where should the responsibility of work-life initiatives lie? Should the government be weighing in with legislation, companies be ponying up resources or should we be our own work-life gurus? Corporate cultures that have cultivated programs in which work-life balance is alive and well do reap financial rewards. Think… [Continue Reading]
Assessing Sick Corporate Cultures
September 12, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Can sick corporate cultures be healed by merging? By now, you may have read of the firing by phone of Carol Bartz from the post of Yahoo CEO (just a few weeks after the Chairman publicly affirmed total support for her). Rumors and speculation abound regarding the future of Yahoo. To some it is ripe… [Continue Reading]