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What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput?

Johanna Rothman

Resource Efficiency. ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .” Resource efficiency means we watch each person's effort.

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking.

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Leadership Tip 12: Focus on Effectiveness, Not Efficiency

Johanna Rothman

Many of us focus on how efficient we can be. An Example of Moving from Efficiency to Effectiveness. We're focused so much on efficiency, that we haven't decided what not to do. Efficiency focuses on reducing the cost or time of the work—doing things right. Only your team can see its efficiencies for your context.

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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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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Here is how you can set your company up with thriving culture. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference. Organizational culture is complex.

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5 Levers for Creating a Culture of Accountability

Organizational Talent Consulting

When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. Here are five psychological levers for creating workplace accountability and making it a part of your company culture. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.

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Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change

Johanna Rothman

Agile approaches challenge the management mindset and therefore the corporate culture. Culture expresses what managers value. Culture (according to Edgar Schein) is what people can discuss, how people treat each other, and what we reward. In addition, Scrum makes the culture clash visible.

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