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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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The dominant culture

Seth Godin Blog

When we don’t see the water, it’s a sign we’re benefitting from being part of the dominant culture. Living within a dominant culture means being reminded of this all day, every day. One of the great cartoons involves two goldfish in a tank talking to one another. One responds in surprise, “wait, there’s water?”.

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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? And managers don't realize inspect-and-adapt is a necessary part of an agile culture.). Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change. Which Policies and Procedures Govern Which Decisions?

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

They create and refine the organizational culture to free the teams to solve those problems. We need to understand our organizational constraints—the policies, procedures, and everything else that creates our culture. That includes any interim measures, including cycle time metrics. What do technical teams do?

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

This type of leadership creates a culture of trust, respect, and open communication within the organization. 10 Cultural Principles of Servant Leadership Embrace the ten key principles of servant leadership. Servant leaders prioritize the team, creating a culture of trust and respect that leads to increased employee engagement.

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

While most companies are investing significantly in building analytics capability, the benefits can't be fully realized until the company culture supports data-driven decision-making. Here are the seven characteristics of a data-driven culture and practical steps any leader can take to architect culture. Upadhyay & Kumar.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.