Culture is an organization’s biggest cheat code, but the only way to use it properly is to understand it deeply.

When front-line leaders create problematic subcultures, they and their direct reports end up becoming misaligned with the ...

If you manage other people, you have a powerful position in the organization. To the people who report to you, you are the ...

Explore Charles Handy’s management theory and how his four workplace cultures shape leadership, motivation and company ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

People come together and join forces for a reason. To achieve the purpose effectively and efficiently, they create an organization. The sum total of those individuals' shared beliefs, norms, attitudes ...

Companies that hire Culture Coaches are finding that their employees are increasingly happier, less overwhelmed, have tools ...

This cookie exercise, first shown to me by leadership consultant Margaret Wheatley at a workshop, is an excellent (and delectable) demonstration of the emergent properties of a system: The whole has ...

When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when ...

Cybersecurity failures aren’t about tools, they’re about people. ORCS turns risk awareness into everyday habits that help ...

Organizational culture is often described as “the way we do things around here.” But, in reality, culture is more than just behaviors. It’s the deeply embedded beliefs, values, and assumptions that ...

Frequently we frame cultural change in organizations as a necessary return to normalcy, discipline, and structure. A call to arms of what “right” looks like; it frequently pits new ways of thinking ...