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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

They valued compliance, agreeableness, and respect for positions. Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. ” John was stunned, but he managed to say: “But why was I invited to this meeting if I can’t share my view?”

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?” Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility. They launch a series of programs bolted-on the side of operations rather than an integrated process of change and transformation.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. In other words, culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement. Jason Richmond.

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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. Here's his take: Joe: Managers across the country are facing tough decisions as they try to manage their cost base against diminishing demand. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress.

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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

In today's socially wired world, positive word of mouth is an ever more prized commodity. Every problem, if managed well, is thus an "opportunity" to boost overall loyalty among a company's already loyal customers. It's hard to cite many businesses that make kindness the bedrock of their operating strategies.