The recently released research report Gallup's Approach to Culture: Building a Culture That Drives Performance analyzes Gallup’s research to identify the business benefits of organizational culture, ...

The term "culture" is often brandished as a Band-Aid for a company's problems. If there's a downturn in workplace morale, it must be an issue with culture; if there's an uptick in performance, it's ...

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...

Frequently we frame cultural change in organizations as a necessary return to normalcy, discipline, and structure. A call to arms of what “right” looks like; it frequently pits new ways of thinking ...

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast," wrote Dr. Peter Drucker, the father of modern management. A culture is the beliefs, norms, and values that influence behavior. And, to paraphrase a popular dog ...

In some respects, then, it is somewhat ironic that, before the pandemic, people said they were increasingly unhappy with their organizational cultures. In our 2018 global culture survey, people told ...

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 ...

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 ...