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Cultures Clash
I remember reading that the three reasons mergers or acquisitions fail is that: You pay too much You don’t act quickly enough to take redundant cost out Cultures Clash I [...]
The Impact of Cost Savings on Workplace Culture
The Culture around here has to change! We hear this from executives over and over again. Why? First let’s start with market dynamics. Are these things happening to your company or [...]
Become a Great Workplace By Measuring Your Culture
More business leaders care about culture these days but more often than not, the cultures they work in are unconscious and not aligned with the company’s strategy. ‘How we get things [...]
How to Align Workplace Culture with Business Strategy
Does your business align workplace culture with business strategy? There are few leaders who aren’t painfully aware of the famous Peter Drucker quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Yet few [...]
An Introduction to Fearless Leadership
Today’s busy, complicated and changing business environment requires a new kind of leadership. Gone are the days of “command and control” leadership because that style doesn’t foster true engagement, alignment [...]
The Impact of Management Systems on Workplace Culture
Every company has “systems”. There are “hard systems” like IT and “soft systems” like organizational design that help form the DNA of any business. Even if a company has a [...]
Workplace Barriers to Strategy Execution
Nike is famous for its mantra, “Just do it.” While this is a good marketing slogan it is a lousy mantra for strategy execution in business! One of the critical [...]
A Framework for Strategy Development
Every organization has a strategy. At best, it is intentional, collective, simple, inspiring and helps guide all decision-making. At worst, it is complicated, static and lives only in a binder [...]
Developing Intuition for Leaders
In today’s world, according to a UCLA study, we are processing the equivalent of 174 newspapers daily. This is five times more information than just 20 years ago. This tsunami [...]