Jim Stroup put up a stellar post about organizational culture the other day. He invites us to think about how much impact one individual (even the boss) can have on an organization's (or even a unit's) culture, a ...
If you're flipping through the most recent Associations Now and end up skipping the article titled "Bring in the Jester" because you think it's a fluff piece about having more fun in the workplace, PLEA ...
Organizational cultures evolve. They quite rarely transform or get reinvented, despite the best efforts of change management experts. But they do evolve, and they evolve constantly. They evolve whether you want them to o ...
Hugh MacLeod (for the non-Web 2.0 geeks among my readers) is a very interesting guy who has spoken about the idea of "social objects"--things you share withothers in order to build relationships (not just produ ...
Not having time to write my blog is easy when other people do it for me! Today I just have to point to Hugh MacLeod's awesome post from a few days ago called "the cultural problem." In short, he was commenting ...
Not having time to write my blog is easy when other people do it for me! Today I just have to point to Hugh MacLeod's awesome post from a few days ago called "the cultural problem." In short, he was commenting ...
Jon Katzenbach is a co-author of one of my favorite books, The Wisdom of Teams. He was a consultant at McKinsey and then created his own firm, Katzenbach Partners. They have recently released a report, titled The Informa ...
There is yet another good article in the Sloan Management Review this summer, this one focusing on an important problem in project management: silence. I think it goes beyond project management, but the article points to ...
Virgil Carter posted a great comment on yesterday’s post. There are several interesting points, but let me focus on one:Perhaps the biggest leadership challenge is understanding that non-profit (particularly IMO) leaders ...
There’s an article in Workforce Management that discusses the (debatable) positive impact that a “kinder” workforce culture can have on organizational performance. Honestly, the article doesn’t make a particularly convin ...
