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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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The Blame-Oriented Corporate Culture

CaseInterview.com

In many company cultures (and in many family, marriage or parent/child relationship cultures), the first order of business is to decide whom to blame. Third, having blame be a part of the culture engenders fear. I firmly believe a solutions-oriented corporate culture outperforms the "blame first" culture in the long run.

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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

However, there are many ways that we could re-imagine the heavy meeting culture and reform our meetings to make better progress. This generally involves making sure your audio and video work as expected. You can use the below resources from major video chat software providers to optimize your connection.

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The Power of Servant Leadership

Rick Conlow

The power of Servant Leadership is changing organization’s cultures. The Power of Servant Leadership Training In this Servant Leadership video, you will learn: Why Servant Leadership makes a difference. The powerful payoff of Servant Leadership Watch this video. And horrendous employee disengagement of 85% worldwide.

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Why Aren’t We Better at XP (or Almost Anything)? “Stop Making It Harder”

Johanna Rothman

Early in the video, Kent discusses the all-too-frequent sexism and racism I also see in tech. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. TL; DR: “Stop making it harder” is a culture problem. It's our policy.”

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Social Hierarchy

CaseInterview.com

When you’re immersed in a culture (an ethnic culture, a regional culture, an industry culture, a company culture, a family culture, a marital culture), it is very easy to believe that the social hierarchy in that culture is the way things work. Read Our Privacy Policy. No, Thanks!

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How to Be an Effective Consultant on Virtual Projects

Successful Independent Consulting

A client of mine uses Microsoft Teams and I engage with them in the way they culturally use Teams, every single day. Even though we may think of going native as a bad thing in consulting because we lose objectivity, in building relationships it's a great thing in the context of fitting into their culture.