Culture change won’t happen without system change. Organizational norms of behavior are all grounded in the systems an organization has subscribed to – systems of decision-making, management, development, recognition, etc. When hiring, the hire is for system fit, followed by training to ensure the system is supported and then maintained by a rewards system for […]
Culture Change? Address the system or change nothing Read More »
Corporations are psychotic, was a general sentiment I shared in a Twitter exchange with Paul Joycelyn the other day. However upon examination it’s far more accurate to say companies of all sizes can be hypocrites. Just look at what they say and do on the outside? Are they applying the same on the inside? Is
Is Your Organization Being a Hypocrite? Read More »
Company A has [insert any social platform name here]. They have these amazing participation metrics and results. Company B has [insert any social platform name here]. They have the opposite. Must be that company B is not doing the same adoption activities, right? Must be the culture, right? Must be leadership, right? I’m not going
The Cart & Horse of Org Social Read More »
It’s a fact, the Business Cycle happens. Ride the wave of prosperity and growth and eventually suffer and endure the phases of contraction and pain. When things are good, good companies spend time on their employees and work to create an open and “engaged” culture. They know that employees who stay when they’re wanted to
Saving the Company but Killing the Culture Read More »
What if everyone in your organization was regularly engaging on your ESN? And not just the ESN but also in a Chat platform too? You’d be pretty excited. And when I say “engaging” I mean more than a GIF here and a “like” there but real responses and content in text form, sentences written with
All That Glitters is Not Social Gold Read More »
