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May 28, 2018 in Engagement, Managing People 0 Comments

A Better Definition of Employee Engagement

I’ve been searching the web for a good definition of employee engagement, and I have to say, I’m disappointed. There are a LOT out there, though I think that is fine. It doesn’t need to be oversimplified into a single de ...

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May 17, 2018 in Agility, Change, Culture 0 Comments

If You Want Change, You Have to DO Something

I’m working with several clients right now on the “Playbook” stage of our culture consulting work. This is the part where the rubber meets the road—where they have to develop a list of things they are going to propose to ...

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May 11, 2018 in Culture, Managing People 0 Comments

Stop Chasing Employee Engagement

I know that many leaders are losing sleep about low levels of employee engagement. So you think it would make sense to actively pursue engagement, right? I mean, who would want any disengaged employees? Okay, I agree: ...

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April 30, 2018 in Innovation 0 Comments

The Importance of an Innovation Strategy in your Culture

I led a great session in Wichita, Kansas this week with some really smart healthcare professionals. We had gathered some data prior to the meeting about the cultures inside their organizations, and then we got together t ...

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April 16, 2018 in Change, Culture 0 Comments

The Top 3 Things Holding Your Workplace Culture Back

Awesome cultures seem to be the exception, not the rule. That means most of us are on the outside, looking in—wishing that we had an awesome culture like Zappos, Netflix, or the organization next door that keeps making t ...

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March 28, 2018 in Change, Culture, Leadership 0 Comments

The Similarity Between Culture and Parenting

I always enjoyed the film Parenthood, from the late 1980s. Steve Martin played a guy who struggled with being the perfect parent (which is, of course, impossible). But there was a scene where Jason Robards, who played Ma ...

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March 7, 2018 in Culture, Leadership, Truth 0 Comments

What It Really Means to Begin Something

When organizations do work on their culture, they frequently want to rush to action. When we show them the results of our culture assessment, for example, it often leads immediately to a discussion about what should be d ...

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February 26, 2018 in Culture, Leadership, Truth 0 Comments

The CEO’s Role in Culture

The answer to the question about the CEO’s role in culture has a bit of a paradox in it, so let me ask two more detailed questions to get to the point. First question: Does the CEO drive the culture? No. The cultur ...

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February 12, 2018 in Agility, Change, Managing People 0 Comments

Does Middle Management Have a Future?

I’ve noticed an interesting pattern in some of the Workplace Genome data of some of my consulting clients lately: Middle managers experience culture as less futurist than BOTH the people above them in the hierarchy, a ...

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February 5, 2018 in Agility, Change, Culture, Transparency 0 Comments

How Does Your Culture Serve You?

I was talking the other day to a leader in an organization whose culture was fairly traditionally “hierarchical.” There was a clear hierarchy there, and people had it on their radar that you shouldn’t do things or say th ...

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