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Leadership Tip #2: Do the Right Thing, Even When it Feels Uncomfortable

Johanna Rothman

The SM might not realize the SM's job is to create a culture where everyone can do their best job. See the series about Organizational Culture ). Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). If you don't feel safe enough to have a useful conversation with the SM, you might not feel able to do the right thing.

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How to Find a Top Interim Manager

Comatch

It’s about hiring a candidate that can seamlessly adapt to your culture and way of doing things. Making the wrong decision could have serious implications for your culture, competitiveness, and propriety information. . If you’re looking for a high-performing individual, this comes with a certain price tag.

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Do the Frogs Really Boil?

Martinka Consulting

It’s why I say new owners of a business are often “A Breath of Fresh Air” and it’s not just culture. Heck, many years ago a client doubled his (newly owned) business in two years and he said the main driver was an online ordering system to book jobs versus phone calls (and phone tag).

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Too few organizations can do that. Not exactly—and you have options.

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A Culture of Measurement

The Nonprofit Consultant

Saul address this as well, and talks about how all staff have to hold a piece of the evaluation puzzle: “Measurement is a culture, not a project,” Saul says, and nonprofits should work on measurement within their existing business processes, keep it simple at first, and make it positive, not punitive. It would be great if they all did.

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How to Develop a Data-Savvy HR Department

Harvard Business

To create an analytical culture in your organization, you need to nurture the right mindset among your employees. And that starts with creating a culture of analytics in your HR department. How can senior leaders help HR develop a culture in which people think analytically? SolStock/Getty Images. Analytically willing.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Instead they say something like, “Wow, it’s going to be a real challenge to make this happen given the tenure of our staff and our strong culture.” Then synthesize it into a “tag line” for your LinkedIn profile, email signature, résumé/bio, and business card. What problems do you solve? What situations do you know how to address?