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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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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture. This culture highlights coming in first.

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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. The following list includes books published in 2021 (and one in 2020). Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan (2021). Leadership isn’t about you.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Leadership Support: Leaders must champion change and cultivate an environment that encourages adaptability. Is your organization ready for it?

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. Dr. Strange was considered by executive leadership to be the best surgeon to lead a new, highly competitive, and lucrative service line. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture. Here are five signs of a toxic culture and two detoxing steps every leader can take.

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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Unfortunately, self-awareness is rare in leadership. A global study found that 95% of leaders think they are self-aware, but only 10-15% met the criteria to be considered self-aware on essential leadership competencies related to empathy, trustworthiness, and leadership performance.

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Undertaking Challenges in a Locked-down World

Tom Spencer

That may be an exaggeration, but cross-cultural exchange has been drastically lessened. To succeed in a global business environment, it is important for the next generation of young leaders to be savvy in the ways of cross-cultural communication. Effective leadership is not ‘one size fits all’.