We blog about workplace culture, strategy execution, leadership and more.
Integrate Core Values Into your Organization
How pervasive and helpful are core values in your organization? At worst, your values live on your web site; in your annual report; and in your office, in a static and meaningless way. Ideally, they are integrated into everything you do, and act as a compass for your...
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 read this at a time when I was responsible for doing acquisitions for the company I worked for and...
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 industry? Change – the demand for more and faster Globalization – competitors not just...
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 done around here’ is now being acknowledged as a key driver in any organization’s...
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 pay purposeful attention to culture. Since 1955, 89% of the Fortune 500...
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 and sustainable performance. GREAT leaders in business...
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 clearly articulated strategy, dynamic leadership and an engaged culture, these “systems” can...
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 success factors to effectiveness in every organization is of course execution - getting it done. At...
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 on a shelf… All too often the process of strategy development suffers...
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 of information coming at us through emails and meetings is overwhelming the capacity of our...
Don’t just take our word for it, read it from them
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It, Read It From Them“In order to be successful in executing our strategic plan, our #1 priority was to get the culture right. We’ve had a major transformation in the past year (and a half) with the assistance and leadership of 1-degree to engage our entire workforce and look at things differently.”
“As opposed to vague culture conversations we now have a framework and specific areas of focus to improve an already solid, self-reported, culture of innovation and inter-reliance. As we approach our first year we plan to take the feedback and spend time with 1-degree ensuring the management team is leading and holding others accountable leveraging Fearless Leadership modules to the cultural expectations are met. Also, we look forward to revalidating with team progress and continued areas of focus.”
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