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Culture – The Secret To Helping Align Organizational Goals

Tanveer Naseer

Lou Gerstner captured the importance of culture as he reflected on his experience in transforming, or as he would say, “trying” to transform IBM from a hardware company to software consulting company. “I came to see, in my time at IBM that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game – it is the game.”

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The Fatal Flaw with Anger Management Programs

Harvard Business Review

Psychologist Leon Festinger, working in the mid-1950''s, began the formal study of how we come to feel what we feel in what is known as cognitive dissonance research. Festinger exposed volunteer subjects to two experimental conditions in his studies.