A recent quote about Warren Buffet said: Your success didn’t lead to optimism, your optimism lead to your success.” Optimism Wikipedia defines optimism as “A mental attitude reflecting a belief…
Start with skills An article in the Wall Street Journal was written with and about Bob Funk, founder of Express Employment Professionals and former chairman of the Kansas City Federal…
A recent quote about Warren Buffet said: Your success didn’t lead to optimism, your optimism lead to your success.” Optimism Wikipedia defines optimism as “A mental attitude reflecting a belief…
Agreement that leads to commitment is a long, arduous process. It requires building great teams that listen to each other, respect each other and use a great process to reach…
In just about every company I’ve worked with over the last 30 years, their values were printed somewhere. Some times they’re in the employee handbook or other printed document but…
Our final quadrant is “Consistency”. The subtitle here is “Does the system create leverage?” Without Consistency It might be easier to think about this quadrant in the negative. What causes…
Adaptability and Involvement Adaptability and Involvement are the two quadrants that make up the left side of the Denison Culture Chart. This side of the chart identifies “Flexible” cultures. Cultures…
Empowerment, Team Orientation, and Capability Development. These are the three areas that make up the Involvement Quadrant. For the most part, each of these three areas requires the right attitude…
When I see low scores in the area of Capability Development, they seem to be driven by a couple of issues: Leadership View The leader and corporation almost always feel…
The Team Orientation of Involvement contains several wonderful elements. Cooperation is Encouraged People are not isolated pieces Teamwork is used over Hierarchy People see the relationship between their work and…
Empowerment vs. Delegation Last week my blog post spoke of Empowerment in great cultures. I need to take a short side trip here to talk about the differences between the…
Organizations with highly empowered employees have a couple of things in common: Processes Pushed Downward The first common point is that processes are pushed down the hierarchy to the lowest…
We’ve looked at Mission and Adaptability. Individually they’re each required to create a great culture. But, we also looked at them as a pair. The top of the chart says…
I read a recent blog by Christie Lindor. The title of that post was “People do not quit companies, managers, or leaders – they quit organizational cultures. Here’s why.” In…
It’s easy to see but often challenging to implement an adaptable organization. It takes Learning Listening Changing Humility Respect Humility is required because it forces you to suspend your belief…