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How to Fix Your Company’s Culture of Overwork

Harvard Business

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.

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8 New Leadership Books

Brimstone Consulting

New Books on Leadership and Change. Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. Comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders, the list included recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. 8 Insightful New Reads.

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Practice Congruence to Create an Effective Culture

Johanna Rothman

However, blaming doesn't create an effective culture. That's why it's worth discussing the role congruence plays in your culture. What Role Does Congruence Play in Your Culture? I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. The teams are stretched too thin.

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Business Book Review: Steve Jobs

Management Consulted

If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, we’d love to hear from you! This book will train you to think differently and see business from a different perspective. This book will challenge you and encourage you as you go on a journey with the author through the life of Steve Jobs. consulting books'

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What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput?

Johanna Rothman

” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. In contrast, a flow efficiency culture watches the flow of the work. What does your culture value? Or does the culture value throughput, so people collaborate on the flow of the work?

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The question book

Seth Godin Blog

But we’re still often hung up on the odd cultural stigma around seeming dumb. Some companies took this much further and paid employees for suggestions that generated profits. Digital communication and more open workplaces have made the necessity for a box like this decrease. Something we learn as teenagers.

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333: Marcella Bremer—A Positive Culture Is The Key To An Organization's Success

On the Brink Podcast

Can you build better businesses by creating positive cultures in which people can work with joy instead of dread? That's the premise of Marcella Bremer's book, Deve loping a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive , which focuses on helping organizations achieve more effective, productive cultures.

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