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Browsing Archive: February, 2010

Googled again: cost of culture is innovation

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, February 18, 2010, In : Talent Management 

What, really, is the cost of culture?  Is culture tangible to business bottom line or is culture an intangible behavioral science term only useful for dissertations? 

Culture, innovation, values, diversity, opinion.  Related?  Perhaps to each other, but related to the bottom line? 

I read a recent blog on Fistful of Talent had me revisit diversity's important to innovation.  Here's an excerpt from that blog "Looking for Diversity? Look for a Difference of Opinion Not Value":
Today's market pl...

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Googled: the cost of culture

Posted by Toby Elwin on Monday, February 15, 2010, In : Talent Management 

What does culture really costs a company?  Is it worth investing in culture or passively letting culture form, also known as luck-based leadership?  What is the cost of culture, in profit or loss?

I found this one company a great example. 

Maternity leave:   5 months full salary
Paternity leave:  7 weeks full salary
     Plus new moms and dads are able to expense up to $500 for take-out meals during the first four weeks that they are home with their new baby.

Free meals, free snacks, free physici...
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The cost of culture, a 50% turnover of the Fortune 500

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, February 4, 2010, In : Organization Behavior 

What is the cost of culture?  Why is it even worth identifying corporate culture?  Let's start with what is culture.  Culture is the values, norms, assumptions, expectations, and definitions that characterize organizations or affectionately known as:  how things are done around here

Culture is often a holdover from the founder(s) actions; sometimes developed consciously by management teams who decide to improve their company’s performance in systemic ways; and sometimes, in the absence of di...


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