Tim Kastelle recently shared his excellent post about flat management efforts at Zappos and how they paid about 210 people to leave if they didn’t like the direction of the organization. He went on to point out that in the past 12 days over 15,000 people were laid off in various industries (which can be seen on a site that tracks […]
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“Culture is an emergent property of the many practices that happen every day. Change the practices and a new culture will emerge.” – Harold Jarche I always thought Harold nailed it with this quote, showing equally how obvious yet how difficult organizational culture change can be. But where, when and how does change start? Is it
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A social network conjures an image of people connecting and sharing from personal to professional and driven by ones own interests. Although it can be large in terms of connections, the conversations can be small in nature which in my opinion builds stronger bonds between the participants. When Enterprise is added to the title, as
Executive: We need a course on blah, blah, blah. Learning Professional: …Right. OK, who is the audience? What is the objective? Really? Back up. What the heck just happened? There’s a good chance their Lizard Brain kicked in, that’s what happened. If you’re not familiar with the Lizard Brain, also known as Reptilian Brains, Primitive Brain, Old
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