Posts Tagged ‘culture’
How to Create a Culture of Greatness
To build a winning a team and a successful organization you must create a culture of greatness. It’s the most important thing a leader can do because culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits and habits create the future. As the leaders at Apple say, “Culture beats strategy all day long.” When you create a culture [...]
A Tale of Two Cultures – New JVBL Article
Yesterday I received word that the latest issue of the Journal of Values-Based Leadership is online and available for viewing. It includes my article “A Tale of Two Cultures: Why Culture Trumps Core Values in Building Ethical Organizations.” The article examines the relationship between culture and ethics by comparing two organizations, Enron and Zappos. Admittedly, [...]
More Policies, More Problems
One of the more amusing bits of information hidden within the details of the Enron collapse was that they company had a written code of ethics. Not just any code. This was a 64-page book given to all employees. With so many written ethical policies, what could go wrong? Gladwell wrote an argument in the [...]
Not How
I’m often amazed at the tendency of authors to describe organization culture as “how we do things around here.” Cameron & Quinn (2006) make this same argument. They assert that any lasting organizational change must be preceded by cultural change. However, culture is not “how we do things” policies and procedures are how we do [...]
