How do we go about Improving Corporate Culture? The first video of a five-part series on creating a corporate culture of accountability on your team. I will discuss employee accountability and employee engagement ideas, strategies, motivation, retention and productivity. You can read the summary of the video below: I do a lot of management training […]
Corporate Culture
Sexual Harassment: 5 Steps To Change the Culture
Recently, complaints about powerful men (and women) committing sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace have gone from a trickle to a torrent. After years of victims remaining silent about their mistreatment, they are finally speaking out in great numbers and I say bravo. It’s about time! But one has to ask why these victims […]
The Transparent Leader – a book worth reading
In this day of fake news, alternative facts and down right lying, it’s refreshing to read the Transparent Leader that celebrates honesty, integrity, and openness. I just finished reading The Transparent Leader: How to Build a Great Company Through Straight Talk, Openness, and Accountability by Herb Baum, the former CEO of the Dial Corporation.” Since […]
Here Comes The Future
This posting on Facebook about the future and the changes we will face comes from Udo Gollub, CEO at Messe Berlin. It’s breathtaking how the future will change our lives, our culture, and our world in the next few years. The Future Is Here! In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all […]
Radical Honesty = Meritocracy & Success
I just read a fascinating treatise on corporate culture and radical honesty called Principles, written by Ray Dalio. If the name is not familiar to you, he founded and is the co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates. With $152 billion in assets and 1500 employees, it is the world’s largest hedge fund. Dalio started investing when he […]
W.L. Gore & Associates: A Great Place to Work
Fortune Magazine recently released its annual 100 Best Companies To Work For edition. The usual suspects were again at the top of the list: Google, ACUITY Insurance Company, Boston Consulting Group, Quicken Loans. I couldn’t help noticing that those organizations are primarily office work. I was curious if there were any traditional manufacturing organizations. You […]
Open Door Policy = A Lame Excuse for Cultivating Honesty
In an insightful article in the January-February 2016 issue of the Harvard Business Review titled, “Can Your Employees Really Speak Freely?”(1) authors James R. Detert and Ethan R. Burrus discuss the importance of leaders maintaining a culture of honesty so they can get the feedback they need to know what’s going on in their organizations. They […]
CREATING A CULTURE OF EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITY
Wouldn’t you love to have a culture of employee responsibility where everyone tries to maximize cost savings on every spend without sacrificing quality; strives to qualify vendors aggressively; works to be accountable for falling short on expectations; creatively solves problems instead of making excuses? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Savings targets get missed, cost guidelines […]