More Women in Leadership Roles — Why and How It Should Happen
The call for gender diversity is about being inclusive and profitable. Following these strategies could lead to success on both fronts.
The call for gender diversity is about being inclusive and profitable. Following these strategies could lead to success on both fronts.
Developing your corporate values early in your company’s history can have a lasting and positive effect on your organization and its culture, and it’s easier to do when your team is small. After all, it’s much easier to steer a four-person speedboat than a 2,000-person cruise ship. Once your team grows larger, it may be challenging to reach consensus around what your values should be.
Anne Raimondi was stumped. Two people she managed weren’t getting along, and it was really impacting progress. In her private conversations with each of them, they had the same goals and wanted the same things. But in the room together, they’d disagree on everything. They’d quibble over the smallest things, avoid spending time together, and jump to assuming the worst about each other, even though they were ultimately on the same team.
Small but strategic tweaks can have a dramatic effect on results.
70 percent of adults, in all generations, want purpose from their work.
For any business, change is inevitable. Organizations that do not adapt to the circumstances of their industry may eventually fall to the wayside—joining the likes of Blockbuster and Radio Shack.
Understanding how to manage Millennials.
How you show up as a leader impacts culture more than you may realize. How are you choosing to respond in moments large and small?
As Agile eats the world, many organizations are faced with the prospect of an Agile transformation. This is a major challenge—one that will involve deep change over many years. If the organization has been traditionally managed, it will include radical shifts in attitudes, values, mindsets, ways of thinking and ways of interacting with the world, in effect a change in organizational culture.
Your salespeople are front-line brand ambassadors. Make sure they are sending the right message.