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...

A Plant Turnaround, The Manager’s Story

By engaging employees, a manager improves productivity and avoids closing the plant. This is his story in his words. “I was a Plant Manager at the California Plant of a multi-plant Fortune 50 company. There I worked with Meridian Group for a number of years, and with...

First, Understand Who Has The Problem

A person with a problem is motivated to do something about it. Yet strangely we often take people’s problems from them and give them to people who are not motivated. Example — Warehouse Gridlock! It was 8:00 am on the first day of my monthly consulting visit to this...

What’s the Cash Value of Developing Your Culture?

  Today most executives agree that a well-developed company culture is a formidable competitive asset. However, like all business decisions, the investment in developing your company’s culture should be weighed against the benefits. The pages below will help you...

Splitting Thoughts and Actions Cuts Profits

  For many employees, what goes on in their head is not what they show through their words and actions. This split between thought and behavior is stressful and unproductive, a waste of company resources — bad for people and bad for business. One of the many...