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What role do you think the culture of your company plays in the company’s success? Wait. Let’s back up. What do you think your company culture is? Intimidation? Get it done at any cost? Supportive? Innovative? How does that culture influence people’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...

I’m overwhelmed by the generalities about Generation Y in the HR-related press and blogs. They’re entitled. They expect to start at the top. They need a gold star every two minutes to know they’re doing good work. What do I see in GenY? A group of... More...

Quick. Tell me your company’s values. No peeking at the poster on wall. Can you recite them? You can? Good for you! Now, can you tell me what those values mean – what they look like – in your everyday work? In the work of your boss? In the work of th... More...

Occasionally I receive direct questions on the questions I blog about. While I reply to every question, the best or most insightful questions I answer directly through the blog. Today I received this question from Christiana Nodjo: What are... 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...

Here’s a startling statistic I ran across recently: “70% of senior leadership understand and 49% value the employer brand, compared with 10% and 20% of employees/potential employees, respectively.” That’s from a CIPD/Mercer report publish... More...

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Why You Should Care about Your Company Culture

Aligning Company & Personal Values for Greatest Success

How to Get Engagement * You Can’t

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Why Values Matter … And How to Get the Most Out of Them

The Benefits of Culture Aligning with Strategy

Corporate Culture * Myth or Reality?

Employer Brand * Likely More Misunderstood than You Think

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