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Does Your Culture Prioritize Profits over Values?

LSA Global

What Matters Most – Does Your Culture Prioritize Profits over Values? When push comes to shove and you or your business is struggling, which operating principle wins out – profits or values? A 2017 report to state regulators highlighted PG&E’s tendency to act only after a major disaster. Who’s to Blame?

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash.

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3 essentials you need to focus on if you want a resilient team

Halo Psych

Contextual resilience – understanding the overall framework in which the resilient organisation must operate. For example, local government operates in a wider framework involving others, such as Central Government. A focus on creating a psychologically safe culture. Why is resilience so important?

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Trend Watching 2018 The Year of Convergence

Cheryl Cran

2017 was a big year! We could say that 2017 was the year where all that was hidden or underground came to light. The disruption that we will see even more is to do with ‘people’ – how people are treated, how people are judged, how people are dealt with depending on their culture, their gender or their financial status.

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How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Masculinity Contest Cultures. by working extreme hours).

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t.

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From Wearables To Telemedicine To Direct-To-Consumer Prescriptions, Here’s How Healthcare Is Becoming Consumer-Centric

SkillQuo

One seemingly small but far-reaching piece of legislation that recently passed was the “Over-The-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017.” Services include STD testing, vaccinations, microbial culture tests, and other preventive health tests. This is very different from today where patients often wait until they feel sick to see the doctor.