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I just finished a two-hour conversation and walked away without a single answer. Frustrating! I’m sure we all know people who seem incapable of answering a simple question. One of my best friends growing up had a mother like that. “Is Jimmy home,” I would ask. Even though that sounded simple, her response was “What…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. Changing your businesses culture is hard work. And once those changes start to manifest themselves through your entire business,…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. So far, we have decided what we want our culture to be, we have converted that culture into a…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. Simply selecting a set of corporate vales and hanging them in the lobby is not a guarantee that changes…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. I see four overall steps to changing your current corporate culture. The first is defining your new culture as described in…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. To this point you have acknowledged that: Knowing your business’s culture is important. You have strategically asked your business’s…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. From your list of feedback on what others think of your reputation, you have divided them into groups of…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. From the exercise listed in the previous blog, you have collected a list of what others think of your…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. To understand how culture affects our business, we need to understand the existing culture within our business. As discussed before,…

Author’s note: this is part of a long blog series on corporate culture.  Feel free to look back on previous blogs to explore previous material on evaluating, changing and establishing your corporate culture within the business context. Every organization has a culture. Your culture, good or bad, seen or unseen, is what keeps your organization together…