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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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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... Continue reading ...
Emotional Intelligence is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on others. Still a little to warm and fuzzy? What about a 30% increase in bottom line performance? Emotional Intelligence is vital to maximize any return on human capital. Why does this matter? The happier your people are, and you can't claim happiness without clarity and consistency from your leaders, teams, and organization culture, research shows an increase bot... Continue reading ...
RSS streams, Tweets, eBooks, email, meetings, phone calls, magazines, social media, and books, to name a few, I propose 2010 the year of less noise and more decisions. We are swimming, some might say drowning, in communication saturation*. Nearing the end of the year I thought to post this blog to share with others my goal to manage noise and get an idea from many of you how you approach information and communication saturation to break ourselves from being slaves of the feed**. Knowledge i... Continue reading ...
The intergenerational divide, a catch phrase that simply shouts separation . The truth is that Baby Boomers actually have quite a bit in common with Gen X’ers or Echo Boomers,
particularly because they gave birth to them and Gen Y probably knew
them as siblings. The Veterans or Traditionalists may be the one group
that is left out of the mix. However, there is a simple solution to
getting all of the generations on the same page. I gave a workshop the other day to a bunch of corporate professi...
Organizations, like people, develop. A start-up has different organization qualities than a 25-year-old, Fortune 500 company. As operations increase in scale and scope a start-up faces new pressures. Each increase in production, staffing, or market share increases their operating risk. What worked as a start-up company with a staff of 5 and $500,000 in sales can no longer manage the same way with a staff of 85 and $2.5 million in sales.Frustration over organization culture, values, and co... Continue reading ...
Intelligence does not guarantee insight. However, diversity does. The very leverage of knowledge is dialogue. And dialogue, a true exchange of ideas and opinions, is only possible in an environment that welcomes and fosters diversity, not the diversity facade, but the diversity lever of possibility.
Although diversity can be a sensitive and often incendiary issue, I want to focus on diversity’s greatest benefit: the birth and exchange of ideas and perspectives.
What is the goal of diver...
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Does your organization communicate or inform. Does your leader invite conversation at the table, does your leader offer an environment of dialogue? If the answer is no, how does that affect organization motivation throughout all levels?Information is a one-way presentation, communication is a two-way dialogue or feedback loop. Should organizations open themselves up to dialogue? I can’t imagine why they would not. With 65% of projects dead on arrival and 70 - 80% of all projects failin... Continue reading ...
Statues are built for leaders, or leaders are built for statues, one way or the other statues are built for pioneers, those who sought a new way; who risked conformity for their vision of what could be ; who sacrifice an easy path to retirement for an audacious goal. The statues you see in your town square, are well-placed: usually set apart with a quick recap of their accomplishments. These bronze versions of Power Point slides are usually far too brief to do justice to the struggle they f... Continue reading ...
I focus a lot of root-cause analysis on how a leader affects their organization. Though it may seem people are responsible for their own motivation, this assumption is far too variable to count on for results. People, rightly so, have their own view, their own filter, their own experience, and their own goals. These rarely align to an organization or a team. So, what’s a leader to do? The leader as the figure-head is responsible for the organization’s health. This is a lot of respon... Continue reading ...
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