Sometimes leading means eating organizational culture for lunch. Shake up the old organizational culture. Cultural change initiatives, particularly in the large institutions, remain relatively fragile.
Intense pressure to perform lead to a number of questionable and downright unethical practices. What can go wrong in an aggressive sales culture.
Transparency is the norm today - Trust comes from transparency It's been dubbed the "diesel dupe". The German car giant VW has admitted cheating emissions tests in the US. According...
Organizational values It's one thing to have beliefs and values spelled out in a frame in the conference room. It's another thing to have genuine and memorable beliefs that are...
Culture code - organizational guidelines Company value statements typically have a tendency to be a bit vague and lacking instructions that tell employees what the most important guidelines are for the...
Core values are what support the vision, shape the organizational culture and reflect what the company values. They are the essence of the company’s identity – the principles, beliefs or...
Culture creates the foundation for strategy Culture creates the foundation for strategy and will either be a company's greatest asset or largest liability. While culture has many aspects and manifestations,...
For many businesses, corporate value statements are little more than vague motherhood statements that sound nice but bear little relation to way business is done. Recent high-profile scandals and crises...
The very phrase “company values” is enough to make some business owners - and many employees - groan and roll their eyes. For many businesses, corporate value statements are little...
The power of storytelling in organizational development The value and power of storytelling is universal across cultures, across disciplines and over time. Many corporate communication plans fail to convey something...
In less than two decades the accelerated digitizing of our society has changed the way in which millions of people interact among themselves, the way in which they search for information...
Storytelling is the ability to share a vision Martin Luther King will forever be associated with the vision of America achieving its aim of a “more perfect union". King’s speech...