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In my last post , I talked about recent research from Towers Watson on the important role company culture plays in a company achieving its strategic objectives. Other research from Randstad confirmed the same: “Two thirds of working adults... More...

What’s your company culture? Are you aware of how powerful your company culture is? This is the main theme of our new book, Winning with a Culture of Recognition , which I co-authored with Globoforce President & CEO Eric Mosley. Here’s ... More...

What are your personal values? What rules do you try to live your life by? As the thoughts swirl in your head, try to distill them down to 5-7. Mine are honesty, kindness, selflessness, caring, and integrity. These all interplay with others. For exam... More...

That’s right. You can’t “get” engagement from employees. They can’t “give” you engagement, either. That’s because “engagement” isn’t a thing to be had. It’s a state of being that you can only foster. Or, as Dov Seidman recently put it in a terrific p... More...

The conversation on aligning values and strategy continues. Feryal Hafez sent in this follow-up question to my post on Tuesday (that was itself an answer to a direct question) that deserves more of an answer than I could give in a comment reply... More...

In a paean of praise to Bill Greehey, former CEO of Valero Energy and current CEO of NuStar, Dan Hilbert (who worked for Greehey at Valero) describes Greehey’s leadership model that drove Valero to the third-fastest growth rate in American history ... More...

A Bnet post titled “Why ‘Corporate Culture’ Is a Myth” caught my attention. The author makes imprecise distinctions between “culture” and “values”: “The values of a group might be honorable — or not. Unlike the mushier name culture, with its co... More...

Have you ever heard the aphorism to truly understand something you have to look at it another way? Well, sometimes you have to turn it upside down. Paul Hebert, a blogger I always learn from and author of the i2i blog , recently posted an interes... More...

In a two part interview, Gallup questioned Douglas R. Conant, president and CEO of the Campbell Soup Company on his approach to engagement and how that helped him when he took over at Campbell Soup nine years ago when he company’s share price... More...

A recent study found the effects of rudeness in the workplace, especially superior to subordinate, have immediate and long reaching impacts. Even “second-hand rudeness” – observing rude behavior happening to others – significantly diminished performa... More...

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