Agility Is Not An Option

Agility Is Not An Option

by | May 5, 2015 | Change, Generational Diversity, Truth

Maddie and I delivered an internal webinar on When Millennials Take Over to a very large, global organization last week. The organizers read the book in order to develop a set of interview questions that were integrated into the presentation, and one of them was: How...
Can you Change When You Need to?

Can you Change When You Need to?

by | May 4, 2015 | Change, Culture

I was at a conference last week, and in one of the sessions we talked about some of the organizations that I call the “culture cool kids”: Netflix, Zappos, Southwest, Google, Apple, etc. These organizations are frequently mentioned in the press, and I see...
Proceed Until Apprehended

Proceed Until Apprehended

by | Apr 21, 2015 | Change, Generational Diversity

This is the title of the last chapter in When Millennials Take Over, and it is a quote that has been attributed to Florence Nightingale. We concluded the book with this title (they are actually the very last words in the book, too) because things are moving more...
Culture is Like Farming

Culture is Like Farming

by | Mar 3, 2015 | Change, Culture

Okay, I fully admit that I really don’t know much about farming, and I’m relying more on a stylized/truck-commercial-version of farming, but bear with me here. A lot of organizations seem to put off the work of creating an intentional and strong...
Does Your Culture Actually Work?

Does Your Culture Actually Work?

by | Feb 23, 2015 | Change, Culture

If you work on organizational culture, at some point or another you will focus on organizational values. I tend to use the word “valued,” rather than “values” (see my video here for more on that), but either way, what we end up talking about...
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