If you work on organizational culture, at some point or another you will focus on organizational values. I tend to use the word "valued," rather than "values" (see my video here for more on that), but either way, what we ...
Everyone knows that the speed of change has gone through the roof these days, but that's not precisely what I'm talking about when I suggest you're falling behind. I'm talking about management. I don't think people re ...
...the first thing you do, is stop digging. Don't get in the way of your own progress. Your own behavior is actually the piece of the puzzle over which you have the most control, so take advantage of that. When faced ...
On the last day of 2014, I made the mistake of getting a prescription filled. I didn't intend to do it that day. That just happened to be the day I went to the doctor and he called it in to my local CVS. I showed up at t ...
Having spent a fair amount of time over the last few months with CEOs in organizations with amazing cultures, I've been thinking about the role of the CEO. I've written about this before. It sort of bugs me that the CEOs ...
When you are interviewing people for an open position at your organization, and you ask the candidate if they have any questions for you, I'll bet that more often than not you get something along the lines of "So what is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
