Recently, I was reading about Zappo’s transformation to a Holacracy model, which essentially means it has become a flat organizational structure without the traditional hierarchy of “boss-employee.” The employees form workgroups or circles based on tasks or processes that need accomplishing. As you may know … Read more
Jacob Morgan’s recently published book “The Future of Work” is a fascinating observation of what’s happening in the workplace. He’s published several posts and articles as well which can be found at www.thefutureorganization.com all relating to the topic. He provides 14 principles of future organizations: … Read more
Fascinating read in this weekend’s NY Times Op-ed regarding civility in the workplace. Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone in the workforce, but being nice is actually good for the bottom line. Amazing how simple things that are good for us … Read more
On Reflektive, a recent blog post about why culture matters more than compensation reinforces everything I have been saying about culture for years. Not the least of which is that a full 95% of employees say they believe it is more important than compensation. The … Read more
At the end of the day, the successful companies have one thing in common, an outstanding business culture that promotes the success of the individuals working there. When this is in place a company can create great products and provide excellent service to its customers. … Read more
Look no further than your daily paper to be reminded of leadership missteps, especially in the form of an offhand comment or email. Recently in The Seattle Times Boeing CEO James McNerney said he won’t retire because “the heart will still be beating, the employees will … Read more
In my approach to business an organization’s culture is absolutely critical. I’ve written multiple blogs about it, and talked about how to create a great culture in my book, Putting Together the Entrepreneurial Puzzle, (in Chapter 2, “Intentional Culture”). Lately I have started wondering how … Read more
I’ve talked a lot about how to create an intentional culture and why it’s important to the success of your business – aligning values, living them on a daily basis, and at the heart of it all, making your employees feel as if they are … Read more
This week I led a webinar for HR That Works called “How to Create an Intentional Culture,” (based on Chapter 2 of Putting Together the Entrepreneurial Puzzle). We did polling questions throughout the webinar with some interesting results. According to this group of HR professionals: … Read more
My work often takes me into organizations that need to make some fundamental change, but have been unsuccessful doing so in the past. I have thought a lot about how companies get themselves into this predicament and more importantly, how they get out of it. … Read more