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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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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. In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. This generally involves making sure your audio and video work as expected.

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9 inspirational videos on leadership and change

Brimstone Consulting

The following 9 inspirational videos on leadership and change have been helpful for us and the leaders with whom we work. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better productivity and calls for a stronger culture of “smart failure.” Who says change needs to be hard?

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Just as no one is perfect, no organization is perfect, and no organizational culture is perfect. Organizational culture is everyone's responsibility, and leaders play a central role in influencing and reinforcing the company culture. Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture.

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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.

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7 Keys to Unleash Employee Productivity, Motivation, and Engagement

Rick Conlow

Employee productivity is critical to a manager’s success. Increasing Employee Productivity, Motivation, and Engagement. Most notably, companies foster toxic workplaces that derail employee productivity. A true story that demonstrates cultures that are top down driven and intimidating. And must be paid well.

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Fun Discussion with Luke Pivac About Agility and Employment

Johanna Rothman

Here's the video: We discussed several topics: My recent Unemployed Agilists posts. That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Luke Pivac, a colleague from New Zealand, interviewed me last week.

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