Corporate Culture

Leading culture change is critical to the success of today’s business executives, and story telling for culture change is a must-have skill. Read more about the role of story telling in leading change.

Dear CEO: What’s your 400 year business plan? You don’t have one? Things would be very different if you did.

Bob Diamond, former CEO Barclays, swats away the questions, as he testifies before a sub-committee of the British Parliament. You can read the subtitles here.

Dear Leader:

As we begin our journey together, I thought it a good idea to let you know what I would most appreciate from you. I hope you do not think it is too bold of me to speak so directly and honestly to you from the start.

We are searching NOWLeaders who focus on a purpose that extends beyond the bottom line, with tendrils and tentacles that reach out to the local, national and global communities they serve, who lead collaboratively, who…. Will you help us find them?

“Wherever you draw organizational boundaries, you will have conflict.” This pearl of wisdom seemed to be an underlying factor in the current case of Too-Much-Success-Syndrome

Organizations that claim that there is no sexism in their culture, usually offer up one or two out of hundreds who have risen to senior leadership. If these women can do it, they reason, there’s absolutely no reason why others can’t. I have met these women. Without fail they are textbook examples of masculine leadership styles: focus on task, logical decision-making, unafraid to ruffle feathers in order to make their case.

Clues that appear in groups of three foretell an emerging pattern. What was a possible future trend is about to show up as an undeniable reality.This week the following clues fell in my lap – so to speak. Care to have a peek at the emerging pattern.