Engaged employees are essential to a manager’s success. Without subordinates who care about, participate in, and take ownership over the work, even the best boss will flounder. Here are three basic elements to start with: Be modest – Share both your mistakes and your successes. Subordinates will see that you’re both human and don’t have [...]

Corporate culture is not a set of core values developed by a small group of people at an off-site leadership meeting. It is not always what a chief executive describes in an annual report or shareholder’s meeting. In fact, corporate culture is not always what the leadership team of an organization says or thinks it [...]

Business silos can occur in global corporations or start-up ventures with just a few employees. And no matter the size, they are detrimental to an organization’s ability to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Business silos, just like agricultural silos hold something important and make it hard to get at. That’s good when you’re protecting [...]

What does it take to build a strong culture? That’s a tough question. Too many organisations go about the wrong way in creating corporate culture change. That probably explained why many of the corporate culture change initiatives failed or that that they cannot be sustained. It is not too surprising that many leaders and managers [...]