There’s no “one size fits all” organizational culture. Corporate culture needs to be cultivated from the inside out. No organization can replicate the success of Google, Amazon and Facebook by aping the cultures that made them successful. Culture comes from within each company.
Among the many shocks and adjustments of Covid has been the near-total virtualization of the office workplace and the subsequent shift to full-time working from home (WFH). At first, the initial transition focused more on mechanics — how does Zoom work, where’s the best location to set up a desk, how to minimize distractions and […]
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Navigating both a global pandemic and the upheaval related to issues of racial and social justice has put businesses deep into uncharted territory. As corporations attempt to address these complicated subjects, they must keep in mind that as companies they are reflections of a broader society, and must manage both their internal cultures and the […]
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The Black Lives Matter protests are the most recent example of a public asking for systematic change. This may have inspired a reckoning to pause and reflect on how your organization’s culture and actions can improve. Inevitably, brands will find something to say, offering support or sympathy, and promises and progress. But customers are becoming […]
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After a period of gloom that few could have predicted, and more Zoom than most of us could have imagined, the world is reopening with some semblance of normalcy – and a significant sense of abnormalcy. The shock of restricting commerce and shutting down entire sectors of the economy means organizations everywhere need to refocus […]
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Engaging in Troubling Times “We’re in this together.” It’s just what you say in times like this when it’s easy to feel stranded and out to sea. There’s nothing like a shared experience, especially a shared hardship, to build customer loyalty – as long as your customers truly feel like you’re sharing. In 1981, Whole […]
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Adapting as Reality Changes Its Spots The “New Normal” is a phrase with which we’ve become all too familiar, with everyone guessing what post-Covid consumer behavior will look like and tailoring their responses accordingly. In 1973 oil prices spiked and gas shortages had drivers stopped in their tracks, leaving the global auto industry guessing about […]
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M&A decisions are based on multiple factors, principally expected financial benefit, operational synergies, the acquisition of a new user or client base, etc. However, companies must take into account the impact on brand, since the outward face of the post-M&A integration can have serious repercussions for both external market perception and internal organizational culture, not […]
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Remote working is now an established cultural phenomenon. From a societal and organizational point of view, a successful remote working policy must be a cultural imperative at an organization, with an intentionality behind it that strives to mitigate factors that weaken remote-worker success, such as poor communication, a sense of detachment from the organization, inadequate […]
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Like it or not, humans are hardwired to draw conclusions from first impressions. How fast? Try 100 milliseconds—a tenth of one second. In personal and professional settings throughout the day, every day, people you meet for the first time are drawing conclusions about you—fairly or unfairly—in the blink of an eye. No wonder some rank […]
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Success Requires Innovation Success in business requires finding ways to do something new, better, faster or more efficiently than others. Success requires innovation. But it’s a catch-22: as success drives growth, the startup culture that provides such fertile ground for new ideas begins to adopt the rigid structures and processes that help larger organizations manage […]
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