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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Culture has been studied for years, resulting in many different models and definitions. A working technical definition of corporate culture is an often hidden shared pattern or system of beliefs, values, and behavioral norms. The concept of culture is abstract and not well understood.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A recent MIT study revealed that wages in the U.S According to a study by McKinsey & Company, you are justified in this thinking. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Wayne Gretzky.

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How to Build a Company Culture of Collaboration

LSA Global

From a collaboration perspective, a recent study by at Babson College found that companies that promoted collaborative ways of working were 5 times as likely to be high performing. How willing are top leaders to address and believe in the need for change? This is the first step to effecting real cultural change across the board.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? But, according to a study by one of us (Christopher) of C-suite executives from India, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and the U.K., and the U.K.,

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The Organizational Reasons Police Departments Don’t Change

Harvard Business

As police expert and criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert recently said , “We know what needs to happen next but we just keep studying the question instead of doing something about the answers we’ve arrived at.” And then nothing changes. Reining in this behavior requires a change in police culture.

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Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change

Harvard Business

Some people want change, others don’t, and some simply aren’t prepared to wait for results to show. As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? Building Block 1—Challenge the system: stay for at least 5 years.