I have to be honest here—I’m usually annoyed by economists. From my perspective, they tend to go overboard with logic and the notion that people are primarily driven by self-interest, because I think it strays just a lit ...
Nearly every organization we work with confronts an important question at some point in their culture journey: Should they strive for one, uniform culture? Or should they let multiple cultures develop inside the organiza ...
This is probably one of the biggest fears among leaders when it comes to culture change: what if we start making the change, and then the effort just fizzles out? After all, culture is something that is easy to ignore, s ...
The HR world loves correlations. Every conference I go to, and every cool HR tool I see shows me some awesome statistic that connects whatever they are hawking to dramatic results. For example, I saw this in an infograph ...
When we give our consulting clients an overview of what should be included in their “Culture Playbook,” we offer up six possible sections of the playbook: Rituals and artifacts Stewardship Talent/HR Process ...
At the end of one of the phases of our culture consulting, we help clients create a “Culture Playbook.” It’s basically a list of things they will do inside their organization to either change or protect specific aspects ...
Some of you may have seen the recent announcement that WorkXO, the company Maddie and I created with Charlie Judy back in late 2015, has recently been acquired by the online survey company, QuestionPro. Several people ha ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
