I spoke this week at the Direct Marketing Association's annual meeting--twice actually: I did a "book club" session on When Millennials Take Over, and then I had a concurrent session on "What the Experienced Marketer Can ...
This post appeared originally on the Switch and Shift blog. It is a commonly accepted truth that having people leave your organization (voluntarily or involuntarily) is a bad thing. At best, people would consider it a ...
As I discussed recently, a lot of organizations like to focus on core values when it comes to defining their culture. Most core value lists are frustratingly generic and, in my opinion, do a poor job in actually driving ...
It is with some sadness that I acknowledge that "authenticity" is a buzzword. If you google "authenticity at work," you'll find that most of the posts on the first page are offering the COUNTER-point--that authenticity i ...
My post last week about Core Values got quite a bit of attention (thank you for the mention, SmartBrief!), so we decided to do this month's #CultureChat on that topic: the role of core values in culture. Clearly developi ...
The following is a guest post from Rob Barnes, Director, Australasia at Aptify. Being a big fan of the Culture by Design v Culture by Default discussion, I pursue meetings with thinkers on the subject regularly. Aptif ...
Core values seem to be somewhat popular among companies that get involved in culture work. It's almost a necessary box to tick. Gather your staff for an off-site, have them reflect about their personal values, then the c ...
I have to think that everyone would agree that having a strong culture is a good thing. That might be easier said than done, and certainly there is not one single version of what a strong culture looks like, but we're al ...
Culture work has a way of skewing towards the ideal. We spend time fleshing out our core values, leadership principles, and an ideal vision of how awesome our organization is, or least how awesome it could be. And that's ...
That was one of the phrases that came out of some work Maddie and I did with a client last week: painful clarity. As in, they needed to make sure that the team pushed through to clarity, even if the results were not alwa ...
