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Corporate Culture

Culture Change – 4 Questions Before You Start

Before you publicly pronounce the words culture change, ask four questions to determine whether it’s the best solution. You may find there’s an easier, more direct, and faster way to achieve your desired end results.

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Leadership

How to Right Corporate Wrongs

The VW fuel emissions scandal raises the question about how to right corporate wrongs. I have an answer for VW’s CEO and CEOs of other companies in similar circumstances. Unfortunately there will be future cases, as we haven’t yet seen an end to such highly unethical, and illegal behaviors.

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3 Principles for Leading Culture Change & One Success Story

In 1999 Kent Thiry became CEO of DaVita, a provider of kidney dialysis treatments. The company was on the verge of bankruptcy. It had revenues of $1.4 billion, losses of $56 million, and a share price of about $2. By June 7, 2013, after the culture change, share prices grew to $125.50. This magnificent turnaround resulted from changing the culture, and to succeed at that Thury applied 3 principles for leading culture change.

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Molding Culture Change – Get Their Fingerprints on It

People are more inclined to implement ideas they helped develop than ideas developed for them. The reasons are simple and straightforward. The drive for Identity, knowing and being valued for who I am, is an important force in the western world. (Some cultures are driven more by group identity.) We like to see the our identity played out concretely, by way of what we produce and our affect on the world around us. Ipso facto – when leading culture change get the people’s fingerprints on the clay that molds the change.

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