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Implementing the Seven Principles for Intentional Work Culture Change

Mike Cardus

Principle 1: People as Culturally Shaped Shapers Definition: This principle highlights that individuals are both products and producers of their cultural environments. Principle 2: Mapping Cultural Levels Definition: Understanding the different layers and dimensions of work-culture within an organization is crucial.

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Collaboration & Six Ways to Make It Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

It was lovely to see the easy cooperation that danced among them as they shared the various pieces of playground equipment and discussed the merits of this climbing apparatus over that. Some people think that collaboration is just like that… playing and working together cooperatively for a common purpose.

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Six Ways To Make Collaboration Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

It was lovely to see the easy cooperation that danced among them as they shared the various pieces of playground equipment and discussed the merits of this climbing apparatus over that. Some people think that collaboration is just like that… playing and working together cooperatively for a common purpose.

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Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy

Harvard Business Review

Statements like that of the Silicon Valley engineer who expressed resentment at his manager’s demands by saying, “[he] doesn’t have two kids and a wife, he has people that live in his house, that’s basically what he has,” as reported by Marianne Cooper, are increasingly common among younger men. Diversity Gender Work life balance'

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Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term

Harvard Business Review

I either get a simple definition, such as “the values of a group” or I get “interesting question” and something of a blank look as a response. ” Most of the definitions of culture used in books about organizational culture and values follow the Tylorian definition. of a group of people.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it''s the very definition of parity. Mobile operator giffgaff''s customers discover, evaluate, buy, and get support online and in social forums — the direct result of a cost structure that includes only a handful of employees. Not surprisingly, it wound up with a bank that looks like an Apple store.

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To Fight Ebola, Stop Pointing Fingers

Harvard Business Review

Instead of institution-based siloes and command-and-control, Ebola demands the collective problem-solving and action of a virtual community — and the mobilization of an entire ecosystem of diverse players. Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes.

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