Find+Fix Your Culture Patterns
Since today is the last day of the year, I’m going to boil everything down for you. If I had to give ONE piece of advice to leaders who want to: get the most out of their organizations attract and retain the best ...
Solving the Employee Engagement Equation
Maddie and I are BEYOND excited to announce the release of our next book, The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement (for Millennials, Boomers, and Everyone Else!). It’s part of a series of Non-Obvious Guides that our ...
Strategy Innovation
For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. It’s a classic (and excellent) business book from way back in 2005, and the premise is simple: if you take the time to analyze your market, you ...
How Core Values Can Actually Erode Trust
Here’s a typical scenario. You want to create a stronger culture, so you ask your people to articulate some kind of ideal culture. They tell you all the aspects they wish were present in your culture, and probably compla ...
Even Small Staffs Get Value from Culture Data
When we were creating the Workplace Genome culture assessment, I had an assumption that organizations with really small staff would tend not use it. I used to joke: Hey, if you’re only 19 employees, then instead of the c ...
More Evidence for NOT Copying a Culture
So I gave myself the rare gift of time last week and read two business books: Ray Dalio’s Principles and Patty McCord’s Powerful. Dalio’s book is a #1 bestseller, and in full disclosure I didn’t read the whole thing ( ...
Managing Workplace Culture within EOS
EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) is a concept put forward by Gino Wickman in his book, Traction, and it is popular with many leaders. It’s a framework for leadership that includes some very clear processes for assi ...
Don’t Worry If You Get Culture Change Wrong
In the third phase of our work with culture consulting clients, we help them develop a “playbook” of action steps that will start to intentionally bring their culture in greater alignment with what makes them successful ...
The Link Between Culture and Fraud
I have to be honest here—I’m usually annoyed by economists. From my perspective, they tend to go overboard with logic and the notion that people are primarily driven by self-interest, because I think it strays just a lit ...
Single Culture or Multiple Cultures?
Nearly every organization we work with confronts an important question at some point in their culture journey: Should they strive for one, uniform culture? Or should they let multiple cultures develop inside the organiza ...