Core Values Are Not Enough
Teacher Fitness Tips for Busy School Days Exercising at your desk won't be such a heavy lift with these tips. Teacher fitness is an important goal, but find ...
Category: Culture
Why Aren’t You Tracking Your Culture?
A consumer sees an ad for a product that seems perfect for them and rejoices over their luck, but this scenario likely didn’t (and shouldn’t) come down to luck. Companies make these scenarios possible through strategic m ...
The One Thing You Must Confront About Your Culture
Teacher fitness is an important goal, but finding time to exercise when you're in the classroom all day can be tough. Squeezing it in before school means getting up even earlier than you do already, while trying to work ...
Painful Clarity
That was one of the phrases that came out of some work Maddie and I did with a client last week: painful clarity. As in, they needed to make sure that the team pushed through to clarity, even if the results were not alwa ...
3 Ideas to Help Make Your Organization More Transparent
This post was published originally on the Switch and Shift blog. One of the most pronounced trends in business over the last five years or so has been the move toward greater transparency. This trend has been driven p ...
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 ...
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 ...