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The Similarity Between Culture and Parenting
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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What It Really Means to Begin Something
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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The CEO's Role in Culture
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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Does Middle Management Have a Future?
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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How Does Your Culture Serve You?
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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You Call It Digital Transformation; I Call It Culture Change
January 30, 2018 in Change, Culture, Technology 0 Comments

You Call It Digital Transformation; I Call It Culture Change

I’m not in the digital transformation business, though I know many consultants and client organizations who are in the middle of it. And Maddie, of course, is a digital strategist, so I’ve got an inside track to someone ...

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The Myth of Generation Z
January 26, 2018 in Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity 0 Comments

The Myth of Generation Z

I see a lot written these days about this mysterious new generation that follows the Millennials, often called Generation Z. Yes, just when you thought you had figured out the “kids these days,” now you have to start all ...

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The Down-Side of Efficiency
January 19, 2018 in Agility, Innovation, Transparency 0 Comments

The Down-Side of Efficiency

I had two remarkably similar conversations last week with two organizations that could not be more different from each other. One was a large, global corporation, and the other was a small nonprofit, but they were both s ...

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Fake News and Workplace Culture
January 12, 2018 in Culture, Learning, Truth 0 Comments

Fake News and Workplace Culture

This week I released a new online training program in conflict resolution, and one of the lessons in the course talks about “valuing stories over truth.” People are sometimes surprised by that notion. After all, in this ...

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Catch Me Online and In Person
January 8, 2018 in Announcements 0 Comments

Catch Me Online and In Person

Happy new year everyone! 2018 is already shaping up to be a busy year, particularly in the speaking department. Here are some of the venues you can hear me speak in the near future, both online and in person: Question ...

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