I found myself midway through an argument for strengthening a particular company’s culture, when a thought struck me: Who the hell was I kidding? I’m going to convince someone he should value culture?! Why don’t I try to convince him to enjoy the opera while I’m at it? Sydney’s opera house. Either you get it [...]
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I got called out a few weeks on my blog for being a chauvinist. The charge was lazy: if you enjoy mistaking pragmatism for sexism, there’s much better material to be found on my blog to work with. There’s also very strong offsets, like this one, if you’re inclined to see me as actually supportive [...]
You cannot calculate the ROI of culture, using modern technologies and knowledge, any more than you can calculate the value of trust or the health benefits of love. If you are responsible for stewarding culture at your organization, and you are pressed to deliver an ROI for your efforts, memorize the following passage. You’ll find [...]
Years ago, I worked at a company where we had a quote board. It was a whole section of the wall in our office wing, and it was covered in completely conversational snippets things like: ‘There’s nothing at that URL.’ ‘That’s because you typed lickmyballs.com. Try lickmynuts.com.’ That line is from the actual board, and [...]
Elle’s been away for far too long… here she is, unknowingly weighing in on the impact leaders have on the culture of their teams. I thought it this discussion makes a nice follow up to my post last Friday about why Rethinking HR is a waste of time. BTW, for those of you who are [...]
Last night, respected HR pros, cutting edge blogospherists, and friends Steve Boese, Susan Burns and Jennifer McClure… et. al… discussed what needs to happen to make HR work—for realz—moving forward. The conversation happened on Steve’s awesome show HR Happy Hour (listen to Episode 53 here). Issues they dove into included such things as: What does [...]
You’re in the hot seat, and you’ve just wrapped up answer 45 minutes worth of questions about your resume. The interview now opens the floor and asks you if you have any questions. You do—at least, you think you do. You’d like to know more about the company’s culture. Here’s what you should do: Rewind [...]
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