New #CultureChat on Twitter
BIG NEWS to announce! In conjunction with Good.co, Maddie Grant and I will be hosting a new #culturechat Twitter chat every other Thursday at 1 pm EST starting this Thursday, February 5th. Mark your calendars!! Our ...
Category: Culture
Engagement Is a Two-Way Street
Maddie and I worked with a client last week on the topic of member engagement, and one of the insights that was particularly useful to this group was the idea that engagement is a two-way street. When we think about e ...
You’re Not As Needed As You Think You Are
Or, at least, you shouldn't be. On Tuesday I posted about a great article on LinkedIn about a company that gives its employees a MINIMUM number of vacation days they must take each year. They do this because they care ...
We Need Hierarchy
One of my idols is Gary Hamel, and he declared this year that bureaucracy must die. I'm sure he'll get a lot of support for that sentiment, since we have been hating bureaucracy since we invented the word (it has ALWAYS ...
The Power of Stickiness
In every blog related to business or leadership, you're going to find buzzwords, and mine is no exception. Culture, engagement, ownership--and even the very basics of leadership, change, and management--are all words tha ...
Tell Everyone Why We Do It This Way
All groups have norms--expectations about how the group does things. For formalized teams or Boards or Committees, once the group has been in existence for a while, the group norms become unspoken. Everyone knows them or ...
People at the Top: Make Your Choice on Culture
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 ...
Conversation with Sitrion CEO about Culture
After my keynote last year for Sitrion's client conference, I sat down with Daniel Kraft, their super-smart CEO, and chatted about culture and human organizations. Check it out; it's about 6 minutes long (if you can't se ...
Cracking the Culture Code: Blogging
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. This is the fifth in a series of posts he’s writing about how he, as a CEO, is building and sustaining an intentional culture in his ...
Understanding Your Own Culture
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 ...