Collaboration, Teamwork and Cooperation

People like to be valued and appreciated, and involved in decisions that affect them. Involvement, teamwork and collaboration are basic human desires. To get them, invite them. Here are two examples. The first is a manager, deep within the organization, who created a...

Some Company Culture Truths

There is no event in a vacuum. To understand what happens, look at the situation. What people do reflects the culture. Culture is established by its leaders. What people do is information about the leaders. Because the company’s culture determines productivity...

Can You Change Your Company’s Culture Yourself?

  You know you need to change your company culture. You know some ways you could begin, e.g. choosing one or two items from the list of 25 Actions, beginning the Interviews or diving off the deep end by starting down the full culture change path. But you’ve never...

Culture Change in Three Days?

My partner and I had an initial three day visit with a new client in the Midwest. The company’s workforce was overworked and demoralized. Turnover exceeded 80%. The managers wanted to improve morale and help new hires and temporary employees quickly become...

Evolution and Company Culture

  Company cultures do not develop with the familiar analyze-plan-direct process used for operational issues. Cultures develop with an evolutionary process, .i.e. in response to the environment, to opportunities — never against resistance. You might induce a work...