Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. Agile approaches change the organizational system of work and the organization’s culture. Cultural change rarely occurs fast. Cultural change is a journey. As with all agile cultural change, your journey is your own, too.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 16, 2021

When it collides with culture, culture often demands we stand still. It’s easier to sell a new fashion or a sports team than it is to sell public health. There’s a long history of culture pushing back on the smart, generous, safe interventions that ultimately become standard. And disease is frightening.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Sometimes, the advantage is a physical asset (we have factories in 30 countries), other times it is a skill (Apple), or a culture. For example, I have two acquaintances who, in high school, both had an eye for fashion and design. The other (who was not nearly as academically talented) decided to pursue a career in fashion.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In many parts of our culture, particularly pockets of tech, it’s fashionable to talk about ‘free speech’ and ‘open platforms’ as if they’re unalloyed virtues. Choosing is a form of selection, of amplification and of curation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 30, 2022

That's the nature of courage — not being unafraid but confronting fear and danger and performing in a selfless fashion. Create a culture of inclusion in the organizational unit under my leadership: an environment in which every employee feels valued and has opportunities to contribute and grow.

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LSA Global

MAY 31, 2021

Employers understandably want to gather feedback from their workers , so they learn where best to focus efforts to improve leadership behaviors, business operations, and corporate culture. Results should be shared broadly and in a timely fashion. But employers have been warned about the phenomenon of employee survey fatigue.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most companies take it for granted that their top leaders can operationally handle the day-to-day leadership pressures required to meet short-term targets, establish a high performance culture to engage and retain top talent, and simultaneously be masters of their area of expertise.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

All products have a constellation of features; we identified 26 cues that at least one of the two cultures nominated as relevant to creativity. To understand the psychology of how each culture views creativity, it’s helpful to know what both cultures agree indicates creativity, and then move to the features where there is disagreement.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

And then, as some newspapers shifted their stance and homemade masks began to appear, the story changes again–worth noting that even fast fashion has never changed this fast. Face masks might help, it’s not certain , but the semiotics of social standing and cultural posture happen long before we actively consider the science.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Culture Can Weigh Heavily Against The Changes We Desire. As much as we strive to hire individuals we know can make a difference in our company, we must recognize that there is a social system or culture that weighs heavily against the change we desire. People Discount the Importance of Workplace Culture. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

Jones’ offer was rescinded when she refused to get rid of her dreadlocks, a hairstyle that the firm deemed a poor fit for its culture. In this example, organizational culture and the legal system mutually reinforce the idea that non-Eurocentric hair is unprofessional. Now, let’s look at a different visual cue.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. Cultural Integration. Firstly, cultural integration is a difficult and delicate process. Cultural integration may be the least of PwC’s worries.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2022

What Strategic Alignment Can Do for Your Business The power of strategic alignment occurs when every part of the organization is working in a unified fashion to implement the “intentions” that define the business strategy in a way that makes sense to the business AND the people. to-1 Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 26, 2020

In practical terms, alignment is about: Being willing to give 100% of your effort and support, rather than undercutting the decision in a passive-aggressive fashion. It is about building a culture of mutual trust where people feel safe to express themselves.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

Particularly in today’s more global business environment, with diverse teams working in different countries (to say nothing of different cultures), making and sustaining change is an order of magnitude more challenging than it was when even large enterprises were primarily located in one country.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Better insights = happy customers Luke Lee, CEO of PalaLeather , a fashion company and retailer, agrees that customer insights are essential. Having the right information on hand also reduces wait times, costs to serve, and increases customer satisfaction. Companies have an opportunity to truly listen to their customers and better engage.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

Job search – wouldn’t it be nice if prospective employees knew about the company’s culture before accepting the job? She didn’t get the job and feels relieved about it as it appears (not verified) there’s a culture of backstabbing. Since we don’t, it comes down to good old fashion research, investigation, and gut feel.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 16, 2014

But most of the time, culture moves forward on the basis of a simple question: "Do people like me do something like this?". And so, new fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what''s correct. If the answer is ''no'', most of us wait.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. 6 new global process owners clearly identified and now accountable for monitoring process metrics to support the shift to a continuous improvement culture.

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SkillQuo

MAY 16, 2018

Diversity of thought, and diversity of race and cultures. Companies that want to establish themselves as forward thinking versus old-fashioned, must employ individuals from all backgrounds. Diversity: There are two types of diversity. Typically, you cannot have one without the other.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

People thrive on mass celebration, but as our culture has fragmented, these universal observances are harder to find. Given a choice, though, many people take the choice—and so, as the culture fragments, we move away from the center and to the edges.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 16, 2018

Gaining internal buy-in from the right people to implement a crisis ready culture can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. In order to implement a crisis ready culture, let’s face it, the organization needs full buy-in from, and support of, leadership. But the starting point seems to be so difficult to reach! This struggle is real.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

High-end restaurants and boutiques (selling art books, handbags, footwear, high-concept athletic togs) are arrayed around the outside and on the top of the garage, while a fashion retailer occupies a striking, 1,800-square-foot glass cube on the fifth floor. “It’s more like a cultural building than a commercial building.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. The Goal of Talent Management.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2019

Solicit the input of front-line workers so you can consider carefully the effect of each step and prioritize and sequence the work in a coordinated fashion. With the vision in mind and the employees at the table, put together the steps required to implement the change. Establish some principles that will guide you all going forward.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 14, 2015

Any useful technology that's successfully adopted by a culture won't be abandoned. This one-way ratchet is accelerating and it's having a profound effect on every culture we are part of. once a social justice is embraced by a culture, it's rarely abandoned. Except by top-down force).

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Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 18, 2017

One important aspect of your organization’s successful crisis management, is being able to reach out to, and communicate with, all impacted and relevant stakeholders, in a timely and efficient fashion. Image Credit: Shutterstock / Rawpixel.com.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2020

And there was an issue with productivity: 84% stated that workplace concerns lasted longer (a few days or more) because they could not be addressed in a timely, direct fashion. Done right, leaders can sustain their culture and their employees by making a concerted effort to adjust to the new normal.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Moreover, since less narcissistic leaders can be expected to outperform their more narcissistic peers, one would expect the evolution of leadership to result not only in smarter, better-managed organizations but also in organizational cultures that are increasingly humble and self-critical. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In our use, though, we mean to evoke the work of cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken in books such as Chief Culture Officer , where he distinguishes between “fast culture” and “slow culture.” Fast culture drove not just the meteoric rise of Buzzfeed but its continuous remodeling process.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities. Cultural and sporting events. Social norms (e.g. people tend to take holidays in summer). Buying patterns and consumer preferences (e.g. brand preferences, and attitudes toward product quality, customer service, fair trade, green, and organic). Technological.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture. Phase 3: A broader range of uses.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

If you want a distributed culture, it’s not going to happen by accident. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion. You need to apply your particular culture to the equation to truly embrace it in whatever ways make sense for you and your employees.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Some people are eager to try new foods, but always rely on proven fashions or cars. Some people live on the edge of popular culture when it comes to lifestyle, but want to be in the back of the room when it comes to their understanding of the latest science. Here's a better way to think about it: [Click to enlarge].

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Consider a few examples: Trends in religious growth are one of the best predictors of fashion-related categories. In areas where Christianity is growing, sales of Western-style formal fashions are likely to grow too, since Christianity usually carries a strong acceptance and influence of Western culture and clothing.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well. In New York, Bain is located at 1114 Avenue of the Americas on the 43rd Floor.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Leanne Hilgart's ethical fashion label VAUTE is one of the first private fashion brands to raise money from their biggest fans, with a goal to set a new standard of ethics in fashion. Liz Bohannon's ethical fashion company experienced record growth this year and continues to create opportunity for women and girls in East Africa. 

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