By Gwen Moran May 30, 2022 Warning: This piece has spoilers from television shows and movies, including The Office, The Devil Wears Prada, Succession, Severance, Working Girl, blackish, and Office Space. Bad bosses. We’ve all had them. In fact, they’re so common that they’re regularly characters in the movies and television … Continue reading 7 Leadership lessons from Pop Culture’s Worst Bosses
Erika Giles July 31, 2020 Workplace culture isn’t something you can measure out and add just so like making a cake. Still, an effective workplace culture is a magic ingredient with many powerful benefits. When people feel connected to their workplace culture, they become productive and engaged. Organizations all have cultures, whether they’ve been developed … Continue reading 15 of the Best Company Cultures (+ Tips for Building a Great Culture)
Richard Conrad — July 30, 2019 — July 30, 2019 The Western idea of intuition is based on the concept that some information can be acquired without reason or observation: a gut feeling or a sixth sense that makes the person experiencing intuition feel one way or another. For example, “I had an intuition he … Continue reading How Different Cultures See Intuition and Innovation
Rick Goodman — April 11, 2019 Follow @DrRickGoodman — April 11, 2019 Company culture isn’t set by any one person. Rather, it’s something that emanates from the entire team. With that said, leaders invariably set the tone and establish some of the core cultural values. One of the key aspects of being a transformational leader … Continue reading How Transformational Leaders Build Better Cultures
Roger Flax — February 28, 2018 — February 28, 2018 Picture a company where ongoing, constructive feedback is not only the norm, but people actually crave the feedback, truly enjoy receiving it, and look forward to more! In that scenario, people give and receive ongoing positive and negative feedback on a regular basis … but … Continue reading Feedback Cultures Pay Huge Dividends
Brett Morgan — April 13, 2017 Follow @gothamCulture— April 13, 2017 Newsflash: People aren’t possessions. So why do we insist on treating workers like commodities? Once upon a time, employees and companies enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship. Workers stayed with one company for their entire careers, taking pride in their output and putting their noses … Continue reading Are They Employees or Widgets? The Results of People-as-Commodity Cultures
Sunil BagaiAugust 31, 2015 Creating a design-centric program In the first part of our series, we looked at the evolution of design thinking as a new approach to optimizing business cultures — a streamlined method for simplifying and humanizing the integration of people, processes and technology. For MSPs overseeing increasingly complex and involved contingent talent … Continue reading Design-Centric MSP Programs: Creating Cultures Of Empathy, Progress And Performance
Chris CancialosiJune 23, 2015 For years, as an employee of a variety of organizations ranging from small consulting firms to the US Army, I’ve been increasingly fascinated with the way in which groups functioned. How some could quickly align around a common set of practices that added tremendous value, while others could not. How some … Continue reading How Exceptional Companies Create High Performance Cultures
Courtney HuberJune 17, 2015 When a company’s website is well-catered to its audiences’ linguistic and cultural preferences, it’s like a gold-paved, four-star experience that grandly ushers in customers. Of course, no one wants the opposite effect resulting from copy that’s not in your audience’s native language, graphics that are offensive or confusing, or a navigation … Continue reading High-context and Low-context Cultures: Applying Intercultural Communication to Website Translation
