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The Conundrum of Corporate Culture Change
Finding corporate cultures to admire is easy. Changing your corporate culture to make it easy to admire is not. (For suggestions on why that is the case, see the previous blog entry, “Benchmarking Better Cultures? Don’t!”) Booz & Company’s annual … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Culture Change
Tagged CEO succession, corporate culture change, Edgar Schein, John Kotter
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Why tell “why?” (1)
Not too long ago, I was brought in to help a global corporation’s employees make sense of a vast change initiative. Or initiatives, to be exact. 35 in all. What the company wanted was an umbrella “brand” for all 35 … Continue reading
Why tell “why?” (2)
Why wouldn’t leaders tell their followers the “why” behind change? Not a question I hear frequently, perhaps because it’s not easily answered. In fact, there may be no single, simple answer. Individual leader’s reasoning on this may be quite idiosyncratic … Continue reading
Why tell “why?” (3)
Okay, I know that we’ve taken a huge leap here, from the case for incorporating the “why” behind change into strategic leadership communication to suggesting narcissism as a cause of non-communication. A leap that could land me in a heap … Continue reading
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