Supporting Innovation
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser If you want a thriving organization you need to innovate. If you want to innovate you have to have a culture that supports it. In a recent discussion on ASAE’s online community Collabor ...
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Humanize Worksheets
I find it hard to believe that it was three years ago this month that Humanize was released. As a companion piece to the book, we created four different worksheets--one each for the four human elements covered in chapter ...
When Is Fear a Good Thing? (Friday Quote)
This week's Friday quote comes from one of the participants in a session I did last week about organizational culture. It was an extended version of my "Organizational Culture in the 21st Century" keynote/workshop, and i ...
Are We Really Fooled by “Branding?”
I've always had a problem with branding. All this talk of a "brand promise" and a "relationship" the company has with me never resonated with me as a consumer, which is then all tied into advertisements--you know, those ...
If Reality Sucks, Then Change It
As I typed in the title of this blog post, I asked myself, "Why would I have the need to say that out loud?!" But I do. Because in organizations, many of us are miserable with the way things are, and instead of changi ...
We’re Not As Good As We Think (Friday Quote)
One of the most enduring conclusions that I drew based on the research and writing of Humanize was the idea that when it comes to leadership and management, we have no idea what we're doing. Seriously, most of our "best ...
What to Do About Bullying Behavior
I spoke about both conflict and culture this week, and at the conflict session a participant asked for advice in dealing with a Board leader who was being somewhat "hard charging" on a conference call. He started by sayi ...
How Long Does Culture Change Take?
I was at an event last week for association CEOs on finding and keeping top talent. The topic of culture was raised repeatedly (yay!), but in the middle of the panel discussion, a CEO of a large and successful associatio ...
What Customers Prefer (Friday Quote)
Today's Friday Quote is from an article in Harvard Business Review by Darrell Rigby on the need to fuse the digital and brick-and-mortar operations of retail. It's a useful reminder that organizations--still--are putting ...
Cracking the Culture Code: Industry Perspective and Staff Teams
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. This is the fourth in a series of posts he's writing about how he, as a CEO, is building and sustaining an intentional culture in his ...