The term "culture" is often brandished as a Band-Aid for a company's problems. If there's a downturn in workplace morale, it must be an issue with culture; if there's an uptick in performance, it's ...

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...

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 ...

Leaders may best address change fatigue with a message of durable optimism, not of self sacrifice. There’s a miasma that seems to be descending on the general population this summer, with potentially ...

This story may or may not be true, but Gail Berger, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, finds it useful to explain how ...

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 ...

These days, the word "toxic" gets thrown around a lot in many contexts, but when used to describe organizational culture, it poses an actual threat. When employees are constantly overworked, ...