This post was originally published on the Switch and Shift blog There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard abo ...
Every single one of us creates the culture where we work through our behaviors, thoughts, and words. We are all a part of that. So as we go about our work, we make choices about what to say, what to do, and how to approa ...
This Thursday we'll be hosting another #CultureChat on twitter, and our topic will focus in on the what, when, and how of changing an existing culture. I find that a lot of the organizations with really amazing cultures ...
This post originally appeared on the Switch and Shift blog. There is a generalized, low-level anxiety in the business world about attracting the top talent. A warm feeling of wellbeing will come over you, and you feel ...
Since publishing When Millennials Take Over, we've been consistently approached by people wanting us to answer a central question: how do we attract Millennials? Whether it's about attracting customers or the best employ ...
This Thursday, May 28th, at 1pm ET we will convene the next #CultureChat session, and this month's focus will be on hierarchy. Specifically, we'll be digging into something that has emerged as a bit of a hot topic these ...
I wrote a few months ago about Zappos' experiment with Holacracy, a system of management that discards the traditional hierarchy in favor of a flexible and dynamic one where employees are more responsible for managing th ...
I was at a conference last week, and in one of the sessions we talked about some of the organizations that I call the "culture cool kids": Netflix, Zappos, Southwest, Google, Apple, etc. These organizations are frequentl ...
This month's culture chat is going to focus on hiring for culture fit (Thursday, 1pm eastern, on twitter; use hashtag #culturechat). In the research Maddie and I did for When Millennials Take Over, we found some prett ...
I was talking to a friend yesterday who got into trouble at work because when one of his superiors needed him for something, he wasn't at his desk. Apparently the organization is "cracking down" and making sure people ar ...
