What Makes a Strong Culture?
I came across an HBR post from a few years ago that identified six components of great company cultures: Vision Values Practices People Narrative, and Place. Um, no. That's like saying a beautif ...
Monthly Archives: July 2015
The Link Between Culture and Strategy on #CultureChat
We've all heard the mantra, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast," but is it true? What exactly is the relationship between culture and strategy? I have argued that they are two sides of the same coin and that culture sh ...
Your Millennials Are Frustrated
When we did our interviews with Millennials as part of the research for When Millennials Take Over, we were struck by how...perplexed the Millennials were with the way organizations are run. They just don't understand wh ...
How to Win the War for Talent
Everyone wants the best talent. We hope that our salary and benefits packages are attractive enough to draw in the best people in for all of our positions, but if we face the facts, reality can be somewhat disappointi ...
Be Relevant to Your Future Workforce
At conferences, I frequently take part in conversations around diversity, which often drift toward the need to provide a "business case" for diversity. While the concept of a business case is certainly fine--we should al ...
Can Your Board Handle Conflict?
There is a lot of pressure on Board of Directors. They come together for a very short amount of time and are expected to make informed decisions on some rather weighty and important topics, plus network with each other, ...
Culture and Strategy are Two Sides of the Same Coin
This post was originally published on the Switch and Shift blog There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard abo ...