Culture Strategy

Company culture influences the roles and responsibilities of every employee within the organization, from executive leadership down to the front lines. A strong, healthy company culture drives productivity and raises profitability, and disengaged employees cost companies billions, yet many executives rarely associate their culture with their bottom line. Today, employee engagement stakes are higher than ever because executives have to consider the impact their company culture has on external stakeholders as well.

Do you feel comfortable delivering bad news? Do you look forward to speaking in public? Do you enjoy networking? Is it easy for you to speak your mind and be assertive with friends and colleagues? If you answered no to any of these questions, this book can help!

Customer Experience programs are gaining momentum in small and large companies but most have been designed for the Business-to-consumer (B2C) model. When the approaches that work for B2C are applied in the Business-to-business (B2B) world, they fail. Based on 27 years’ experience consulting to major, global B2B companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, VMware, EMC, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, BT, Telefonica, Honeywell, Motorola, Accenture, Nokia, Siemens, Fujitsu and Xerox, Harry Bunn sets out practical approaches to getting it right in the B2B world. This book shows how ...

Who would have thought finding a church home could be so hard? Peter and his wife have a strong marriage. But when it comes time to find a new church after they move, their differences couldn’t be more pronounced. At first, their aim is straightforward. He’ll write a book about the churches they visit. She’ll choose the one they’ll embrace as their new spiritual family. It sounds like a simple plan, but this Christian couple soon discovers their quest for a home church is far more difficult. An entertaining, poignant memoir for Christian believers, SHOPPING FOR CHURCH will give you ...

The second edition is an improved guide to strategy deployment, designed for leaders and managers of all levels in every industry. The strategy deployment handbook combines elements of the strategy development, deployment, execution, and measurement using KPIs and balanced and cascading scorecards to achieve strategic goals and objectives. This handbook provides guidance through a simple seven-step approach called SUCCESS: Step One – Set the Strategic Goals; Step Two – Understand the KPIs; Step Three – Create Cultural Engagement; Step Four – Construct the Initiatives; Step Five – ...

Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing is clear - work will no longer be the same. The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking about creating a work-from-anywhere organization, harnessing AI as part of your team, creating an inclusive culture, and building a purpose-driven organization.

During a time of prayer, God opened up a powerful strategy to disrupt the momentum of the homosexual agenda to me, and a successful campaign will result in innumerable people set free in Jesus! We've heard it often-love the sinner, hate the sin. Is this really the limit of our wisdom? Is there truly nothing beyond that simple thought that can result in true liberty? I'm sure the LGBT community is sick, bored and tired of that defense-and I am too. It offers no real strategic plan of action and it reveals that we have exhausted our arguments. After loving the sinner and hating the sin, where...

Leading Clarity offers a bold proposal that changes the trajectory of your business and leadership. Today's business environment is more complex than at any time in history with greater ambiguity, chaos, and uncertainty. Too often, individuals and organizations become bogged down with competing priorities and the constant press of daily demands. This tangled mass of noise effectively handicaps every facet of business. This audiobook provides a proven, time-tested strategy that has brought dynamic results to hundreds of organizations of all scope and size.

A new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can – and should – be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would: through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting – rather than relying on the boss’s instincts.

This book is not about lean. This book is about how to become lean. Lean strategy brings to a company a purpose of existence, belonging, influence, trust, and conscious leadership among its managers. It strengthens the autonomy and responsibility of individual employees and ultimately provides an everyday feeling of collaborative winning. This is my strategic approach to lean. Lean strategy consists of two parts. The first is to help you understand the problem. The second part of the book is a kind of manual.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow while your competitors stumble. This book will inspire you to: harness your resources to pull through a pandemic; learn the right lessons from previous recessions; minimize pain while cutting costs and managing risk; foster a healthy culture during anxious times; make smart moves to protect your own job; and seize the opportunity to innovate and reinvent your business.

This is a guide to cultural engagement, designed for leaders and managers of all levels in every industry. The cultural engagement handbook combines elements of culture strategy, culture models, culture assessment, culture planning, and initiatives to transform the culture to an engaged and high-performing one. This handbook provides guidance through a simple seven-step approach called SUCCESS: Step One – Set the Culture Strategy; Step Two – Understand the Current Culture; Step Three – Consider the Culture Gaps; Step Four – Create the Culture Plan; Step Five – Execute the Culture ...

As award-winning club consultants working with clubs and communities across the country, we noticed themes and patterns of excellence and struggles. One of the common denominators was a lack of understanding about human behavior. The industry focuses on the what, but misses the opportunity to explain the why or how.

What if a simple understanding of how the mind works was all you needed to build a business that inspired innovation, productivity, loyalty, and the ability to continually solve complex business problems? What if you never needed to study "proven strategies" or buy into someone else's success story? Humans Working presents a deep yet straightforward understanding of the most important asset in business - the human mind - and illustrates implications for you as a business leader, contributor, parent, partner, and beyond.

In today's rapidly-evolving technological landscape, cybersecurity has become a top priority for businesses and organizations around the globe. But with new threats emerging every day, it can be challenging to stay on top of the latest best practices and strategies. That's where Third Monkey comes in. This groundbreaking eBook dives deep into the importance of developing a values-driven culture within your organization to strengthen your cybersecurity defenses. From defining warrior ethos in cybersecurity to understanding the psychology of human behavior, this comprehensive guide covers it ...

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: How to Succeed at an Impossible Job is a concise introduction to practical DEI. It outlines how someone new to their role can pragmatically and effectively get started. It acknowledges how challenging this work can be and sometimes even feel impossible. Nevertheless, the book outlines paths to achieving success. Each chapter provides practical step-by-step guidance to common challenges in organizational DEI including setting a strategy, measuring results and communicating with authenticity. The book also speaks to the DEI professional’s relationship with ...

In his work consulting to major corporations for more than 30 years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60-70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results.

The Psychology of Safety: From Attitudes to Habits is an essential guide to transforming safety from a mere rule to an ingrained mindset. In today’s fast-paced world, safety is not just about compliance, it’s about cultivating the right attitudes, behaviors, and habits that ensure long-term well-being. This book explores the psychology behind safety, offering practical strategies to develop a safety-first approach in daily life. Whether at home, work, or in the community, it provides insights into leadership-driven safety, empowering individuals to take responsibility, and creating a ...

Company culture is what gets people excited to come to work each day - yes, excited! Healthy company culture is the key to transform your workplace from the mundane, boring, and average into the extraordinary and superbly productive place of your dreams. Once you understand company culture and how to implement it into your workplace, it’s simply a matter of consistency before every one of your coworkers begins beaming with joy.

Drawing on the science of how we learn, The Expertise Economy shows companies big and small how to transform their employees into experts and ultimately their biggest competitive advantage. Kelly Palmer, Silicon Valley thought leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo, and David Blake, cofounder of Ed-tech pioneer Degreed, share their experiences and describe how some of the smartest companies in the world are making learning and expertise a major competitive advantage.