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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. Some companies “magically” have great cultures induced by heroic leaders and, thus, dominate their markets. Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement?

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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. Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market.

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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. In our book, we studied the practices of organizations like Wegmans Food Markets, ING Direct, and Harrah's Entertainment. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress. Who doesn't? Earl Sasser, Jr.

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Thoughts that Make You Go Hmmm on…. Leading Culture Change

The Practical Leader

These are drawn from Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett’s new book, The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance : “Culture really matters. Here are especially vital findings and powerful observations about just what it takes to build a peak performance culture.

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Retail's Winners Rely on the Service-Profit Chain

Harvard Business Review

The article, written by a leading group of service management thinkers (Jim Heskett, Tom Jones, Gary Loveman, Earl Sasser, and Len Schlesinger) is a great example of both the power a management idea can have, and how much work is required for an idea to become reality. (If

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