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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Just as no one is perfect, no organization is perfect, and no organizational culture is perfect. Organizational culture is everyone's responsibility, and leaders play a central role in influencing and reinforcing the company culture. Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results

Rick Conlow

Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. In addition, research by Hoch, Bommer, Dulebohn & Wu (2016) showed an additional 12% gain in outcomes beyond other studies.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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3 Surefire Ways to De-Stress Your Work (and Life)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Research by Gallup suggests that employees reporting poor mental health are less productive and five times more likely to miss work than those reporting good mental health. In a recent global study of 14,800 knowledge workers, 49% of leaders and 42% of non-managers struggled with anxiety. So what are you to do? Pfeffer, J., & Williams, N.

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10 Hidden Workplace Stressors That Keep You Disengaged

Organizational Talent Consulting

Unhealthy levels of stress at the organizational level are linked to reduced productivity, increased absenteeism, and higher turnover. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than on raw materials for their products. Mergers and acquisitions can be a common source of this stress. Williams, N.