Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations’ cultures. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. As change tsunamis relentlessly sweep the globe, adaptive organizations are getting stronger and unadaptive ones are being washed out to sea. Organization Learning (e.g.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Organizations can and must define the culture they desire and intentionally execute a well-thought out road map to shape their future. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Heskett describes how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same business. Heskett discusses how to calculate the economic value of culture through the "Four Rs" of referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. Heskett.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I'm sure many supervisors at American would have issues with their colleague's innovative, if mildly deceptive, solution. For example, Ritz-Carlton Hotels are famous for making every problem into what the organization calls an "opportunity." Crisis averted. But, no matter how you look at it, it was an act of genuine kindness.

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