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 ...
I did an interview on a really cool podcast this week, called Amazing Workplaces. It's almost an hour long, but check it out. Obviously I'm talking about our book, When Millennials Take Over, although Chris also asks me ...
I'm just back from the ASAE Annual meeting in Detroit. It's my 12th consecutive annual meeting. Over the years most of my clients have been associations, so this is obviously the place to be for me every year, though my ...
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with larynx cancer earlier this year and the doctor said I was going to need HCA from https://homecareassistance.com/mclean/. I had a small growth on my vocal chords that turned out t ...
This post was published originally on the Switch and Shift blog. One of the most pronounced trends in business over the last five years or so has been the move toward greater transparency. This trend has been driven p ...
I came across an HBR post from a few years ago that identified six components of great company cultures: Vision Values Practices People Narrative, and Place. Um, no. That's like saying a beautif ...
We've all heard the mantra, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast," but is it true? What exactly is the relationship between culture and strategy? I have argued that they are two sides of the same coin and that culture sh ...
When we did our interviews with Millennials as part of the research for When Millennials Take Over, we were struck by how...perplexed the Millennials were with the way organizations are run. They just don't understand wh ...
