Culture is no longer optional. It's an essential foundation that enables organizations to execute strategy, drive productivity, manage costs effectively, and achieve a sustainable competitive ...

This cookie exercise, first shown to me by leadership consultant Margaret Wheatley at a workshop, is an excellent (and delectable) demonstration of the emergent properties of a system: The whole has ...

Even though the word ‘culture’ echoes throughout history, it is not something that is dormant, ancient or belonging to earlier times, such as symbols and hieroglyphics. The reality is that it ...

There’s been so much talk over the last few years about hiring for “culture fit.” Hiring people that will automatically fit into your company's culture, creating a cohesive team, sounds good in theory ...

Every company has a culture. If leaders don't work to establish an organizational culture, it develops on its own. That's not always a good thing. There's a complex relationship between culture and ...

People come together and join forces for a reason. To achieve the purpose effectively and efficiently, they create an organization. The sum total of those individuals' shared beliefs, norms, attitudes ...

As leaders, we all work with employees who are different from us. Until recently, many leaders ignored those differences, believing that they were not relevant in the workplace. Even today, some ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

Executive summary: This article provides direction for the development of the workplace virtue known as cultural humility. It defines employee experience, including employee community curation, and ...

This story may or may not be true, but Gail Berger, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, finds it useful to explain how ...

Brewington's point of view is shaped by a broad professional track record that spans a major international law firm, federal ...

In an era marked by rapid change and increasing complexity in workplace environments, the role of organizational psychology ...