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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change. Companies cannot build static strategies that stretch over 3 or 5 years. Every company has a culture.

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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience

Leapfrogging

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. It encompasses the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how a company’s employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions.

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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

In the more recent blog, I wrote about what I consider the most difficult thing to change in an organization - its culture. This is why understanding how organizational culture works, and how to encourage it to change, is so important. Changing culture takes emphasis, time and commitment. Who focuses on change capacity?

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Cultivating Success: Exploring the Link Between Organizational Culture and Business Performance

Leapfrogging

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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How to Develop a Culture That Puts Employees First

Business and Tech

Amid the competitive war for talent and labor shortages, now is the time for employers to step up and ensure their culture is one that focuses on employees’ experience in the world of work. Of course, that is much easier said than done. Yes, they get paid, but they want to feel like their work is genuinely important to the company.

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

A friend had dared Hsieh to start a company with the name Venture Frogs so that is what he did. The company gained a reputation for extraordinary customer service. Hsieh made at least $200 million from the sale but stayed on as CEO to lead the company. He upended the company structure. This proved successful.

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Creating an Innovative Culture in a Remote-First Organization

IdeaScale

Overview: While the fundamentals of creating an innovative culture at a company remain the same when remote, such as encouraging ideas and using small teams to build up, the remote workplace offers new challenges for innovators. Remote Work And Innovation Culture. That, in turn, has created a new challenge. Use The New Tools.

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