Company Culture

17 Jul Why Jonathan Courtney Hated His Own Company AJ&Smart — and What That Reveals About Structure (Not Culture)

Posted at 13:28h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Organizational Teardown

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I listen to what founders say in public and unpack it through my own professional lens, as a coach and consultant who works on leadership, organizational, and innovation development, looking at both the structural side of a business and the...

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10 Jul Why Lasting Organizational Change Doesn’t Require Big Programs

Posted at 11:30h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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When a crisis looms, management pulls the plan out of the drawer. The plan is usually already finished. A cost-cutting program, a reorganization, a change initiative with a catchy name and a target year far enough out to sound confident....

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06 Jul Future Leadership: What the Term Promises and What Organizations Actually Need

Posted at 12:50h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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Anyone looking for modern approaches to contemporary leadership will usually come across one of these well-known terms in practice: Servant Leadership, New Leadership, Agile Leadership, Empowerment Leadership and many more. These terms generally share similar core principles, such as: ...

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29 Jun Conflict Management in Organizations: Why Conflicts Can’t Be Resolved

Posted at 09:29h in Change Management, Company Culture, Conflict Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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The best team I've ever worked with argued more than the worst one. On one team, pushback flew across the table on a regular basis, sometimes loud, sometimes still simmering a few days later. Decisions got challenged even after they...

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18 Jun Future Leadership Development: Why Structure Beats Behavior

Posted at 11:39h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Transformation

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A leader comes back from a two-day seminar. She's understood that she needs to delegate more, control less, give the team more trust. Three weeks later, she's back in the same loop. A decision that could have been made by...

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04 Jun Company Culture Cannot Be Decided and Yet Leaders Try Every Day

Posted at 10:35h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Transformation

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Most organizations know the pattern. Someone notices that collaboration isn't working. Trust is low. Willingness to cooperate is missing. So a decision is made to change the culture. A workshop gets scheduled, new values get defined, and eventually posters appear...

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19 May What Is Organizational Development — and Why Does It Rarely Work?

Posted at 11:16h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Transformation

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When someone brings up organizational development, they usually mean one of three things: a program that's currently running. A problem it's supposed to fix. Or a job opening they're trying to fill. What they rarely mean: a serious examination of...

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