Download or read book Revitalize Your Corporate Culture written by Franklin C. Ashby, Ph.D. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapt or die—this is the simple choice that business has always faced. Here's a valuable guide to the how's, what's, when's, and why's of that choice. 'Revitalize Your Corporate Culture' will help you to: *Diagnose your company's culture *Understand the features of a positive corporate culture *Design a strategy for an effective culture change *Gain the full support of staff to implement a new, positive culture *Maintain the momentum after the new corporate culture plan is in place *Shared values and unwritten rules (your company's culture) can profoundly enhance—or destroy—economic success. This book supplies all the steps necessary to increase productivity, make your organization more cost effective, and help you change your organization into a more dynamic, innovative, and collaborative organization. Whether you are a senior executive or a middle-level manager, this book gives you techniques that will motivate, encourage, and prepare your staff to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Download or read book The New Corporate Cultures written by Terrence E. Deal and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early '80s, Allan Kennedy and Terry Deal launched a new field of inquiry and practice, with the publication of Corporate Cultures, in which they argued that distinct types of cultures evolve within companies and have a direct impact on strategy and performance. Fifteen years later, the authors have teamed up to assess the effects of globalization, short-termism, technology, downsizing, outsourcing, mergers, and reengineering on corporate culture. They find that despite these tremendous pressures, organizations, by their very nature, will create self-reinforcing communities; the pattern today is for mini-cultures to form within the larger corporation. The challenge for managers and leaders at all levels is to find ways to knit these cultures together to unleash learning and encourage everyone to take ownership and pride in their work. Taking examples from innovative companies around the world, the authors offer new strategies for "exercising cultural leadership," -- rebuilding the cultural fabric of the organization, energizing the workforce, enhancing corporate performance, and preparing for new challenges in the 21st century.

Download or read book Revitalize Your Corporate Culture Powerful Ways To Transform Your Company Into A High Performance Organization written by Ashby and published by . This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Inspiration Factor written by Terry Barber and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For managers and executives who are watching their employees struggle, there is a simple solution that can turn a workplace around in just 12 weeks -- and grow the bottom line. This book shows businesspeople how to inspire -- not just motivate -- others by tapping into their dreams and tying them to corporate goals. Along the way, those inspiring organisations make more money, have bet-ter employee retention, and earn greater customer loyalty than their competitors do. Being authentic, seeing others abilities, connecting with other people's dreams, and earning trust through credibility are some of the tenets of author Terry Barber's programme. To underscore the seven principles of inspiration he outlines, he offers real-life applications throughout the book based on his almost thirty years of experience. And to help leaders nail the art and science of identifying and applying their unique abilities to inspire others, he provides thought-provoking questions and concrete exercises that can be implemented the very day they open the book. For leaders who question whether they and their teams are valuing the right things, focusing on the right priorities, and building a supportive environment, this book offers confidence, personal fulfilment, and a more productive, happier workforce.

Download or read book The New Corporate Culture written by Terrence E. Deal and published by Orion Business. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of a company plays an important role in corporate strategy and performance. This text assesses the effects of economic forces on corporate culture since the mid-1980s, offering insights for achieving corporte renewal and success. Business examples include BT, Intel and Gillette.

Download or read book The Corporate Culture Survival Guide written by Edgar H. Schein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective, sustainable cultural change requires evolution, not disruption The Corporate Culture Survival Guide is the essential primer and practical guide every organization needs. Corporate culture pioneer Edgar H. Schein breaks the concept of 'culture' down into real terms, delving into the behaviors, values, and shared assumptions that define it, and explains why culture is the central factor in an organization's success—or failure. This new third edition is designed specifically for practitioners needing to apply these practices in real-world settings, and has been updated with new coverage of globalization, technology, and managerial competencies. You'll learn how to get past subconscious bias to assess whether or not your existing culture truly serves your organization, and how to introduce change and manage the change process over time for a best-case-scenario outcome. Case studies illustrate successful change in real companies, providing models and setting the bar for dismantling dysfunctional cultures. Corporate culture begins with the founder, and evolves—or not—over time. Is your culture working for or against your organization? How can it be optimized? This book separates the truth from the nonsense to provide real-world guidance on initiating and managing cultural change. Understand when to assess your culture, and how to do it objectively Learn how cultures evolve and change over time, for better or worse Discover the reality of multiculturalism amidst the rise of globalization Evolve your culture to more effectively serve your organization Each of us is a part of many cultures—what you do, where you live, where you grew up, what you enjoy, how you live; in the workplace, many different people with many different cultures come together toward a common goal—will these cultures clash or synergize? The Corporate Culture Survival Guide shows you how to create an overarching corporate culture that gets everyone on the same page to drive your organization's success.

Download or read book The Fourth Factor written by Linda Ford and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manage the 800 pound Gorilla- your corporate culture-or it will manage you Editorial Reviews "Culture matters. What Ford calls the fourth factor is at least as important as products, customers, and cash in getting results and generating shareholder value. Any executive who wants to successfully manage culture should heed the practical advice Ford provides." -Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Ford's wonderful new book on the Gorilla of corporate culture is brilliantly practical, carefully thought out, and clearly written. To mix metaphors, the blind men (and women) can finally begin to see the sides of the elephant when it comes to culture." -Michele Bolton, Author of The Third Shift "Ford has done a great job of creating a book that allows leaders at all levels of the organization to lead more effectively by understanding and managing culture. A must read for executives " -Brian Scudamore, Founder and CEO, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Book Description Corporate culture is the 800 pound Gorilla in your organization-it does whatever it wants to. You can't ignore it. If you focus only on managing products, customers, and cash, leaving the fourth factor- culture-to take care of itself, your culture may undermine your success in the first three. Managing the fourth factor is crucial to any leader's success and this book will show you how to do that. Failure to manage corporate culture can result in - Inability to change strategic directions more quickly than your competition - A failed merger or joint venture - The isolation of functional silos in the organization. Most executives hate dealing with culture because they don't know how to manage or measure it, let alone change it. So they focus on managing products, customers, and cash, leaving the fourth factor-culture-to take care of itself. All too often, the neglected fourth factor undermines success in the first three. A successful culture provides a competitive advantage that is virtually impossible to duplicate. This will be increasingly important as the global talent shortage becomes more severe. Statisticians estimate that in 2008, approximately 12 million experienced workers will leave the workforce and only 3.5 million new workers will enter the workforce. Your organization needs to be able to attract and retain talent in that market. Managing culture is vital to your ability to do that. Understanding how culture maintains and reproduces itself is the key to managing culture. Dr. Ford provides plenty of real-world examples and specific behaviors to make culture real and visible. And she deals specifically with the pragmatics of managing culture change. In this engaging, practical look at organizations, you'll learn how to take charge of your destiny by managing the fourth factor. Dr. Ford takes culture from a soft, nebulous concept that can't be managed to a strategic asset that must be managed. More Editorial Reviews "Ford has finally provided an answer to every CEOs question: "We've tried everything and the problem persists. What's wrong?" Read The Fourth Factor, and you'll pick up that missing organizational link." -George W. Kessinger, CEO, Goodwill Industries International "This is an important work on a significant subject for serious leaders who want to grow extraordinary organizations. Dr. Ford elaborates with clarity and wisdom about the power of culture in any environment." -Nido R. Qubein, Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Company, President, High Point University About the Author Maverick, entrepreneur, catalyst, leader, sage advisor, change agent. Dr. Linda Ford is all of these. Linda is committed to helping senior executives manage the fourth factor-culture. She consults and speaks on improving business performance. After twenty five years in Silicon Valley, Linda is back home in Texas. She lives in Austin with her cat, Lizzie.

Download or read book The New Corporate Cultures written by Terrence E. Deal and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking examples from innovative companies around the world, the authors provide a framework for understanding corporate culture today, and for exercising cultural leadership to rebuild and motivate a workforce for optimal performance.

Download or read book Corporate Culture written by Jerome H. Want and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No subject is more important to the success of today's business organization than Corporate Culture. After so many years of failed fads and fix-its, such as business-process reengineering, outsourcing, downsizing, flawed go-for-growth strategies, and outrageous cases of corporate lawlessness, Dr. Jerry Want brings clarity and direction to the one subject that is most critical to the success and very survival of today's corporation- corporate culture. Corporate Culture: Illuminating the Black Hole is the definitive source of knowledge for understanding and building the new type of business culture that is required in this age of radical business change. Through dozens of real-life examples drawn from his many years of consulting and corporate experience, and unique tools such as the proprietary Hierarchy of Corporate cultures ranging from Predatory through Bureaucratic to high-performing New Age cultures, Dr. Want shows concretely and clearly how a company's culture permeates everything it does, and how to revitalize the culture in order to grow and perform to maximum capability. Case studies show how corporate culture has contributed to the success of such companies as Nucor, Harley-Davidson, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Cisco Systems, among others. The book also examines how flawed corporate cultures have contributed to the failure or near failure of former industry leaders such as SmithKline, Motorola, Arthur Andersen, Xerox, and Polaroid, among others.

Download or read book Corporate Culture written by Eric Flamholtz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we know Southwest Airlines as laid back and friendly. We think of Google as innovative. To almost every well-known company we can assign a character. It is now well recognized that corporate culture has a significant impact on organizational health and performance. Yet, the concept of corporate culture and culture management is too often tantalizingly elusive. In this book, Flamholtz and Randle define culture, identifying and explaining the five key dimensions that determine it: a customer orientation; a people orientation; a process orientation; strong standards of performance and accountability; innovation and openness to change. They explain why culture is a critical factor in organizational success and failure—a key determinant of financial performance. Then, they provide a theoretically sound, highly practical, and field-tested method for managing corporate culture—presenting a set of international and domestic cases that show how actual companies have leveraged culture as the ultimate source of sustainable competitive advantage. In addition to well-known companies such as Starbucks, Ritz-Carlton, American Express, IBM, and Toyota, the text presents lesser known culture stars, such as Smartmatic and Infogix. While other titles on culture have focused too heavily on the organization as a psychological being, or on academic studies of culture as a business lever, Corporate Culture draws on empirics to present a go-to, must-read guide for leveraging corporate culture as a source of competitive advantage and as a means of impacting the bottom line.

Download or read book The Manager s Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change written by Richard Bellingham and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a practical plan and roadmap to start the knowledge management process. It walks the reader through all the stages - assessment, planning, deployment, and evaluation - and then puts it together to expand the reader's core competency and win competitive advantage.

Download or read book Why Your Corporate Culture Change Isn t Working and what to Do about it written by Michael Ward and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Ward has heard the same comments, and seen the same reasons for success or failure in a wide variety of companies, and reflects this experience in the fictitious case studies that form the core of this provocative book. Each follows the same pattern of short narrative, discussion, key points, and concluding principles. Painfully realistic, all managers will wince as they read scenarios that are all too familiar. This is not a book of theory. It is rooted in real experience which will significantly increase the chance of your change programme succeeding.

Download or read book Win from Within written by James Heskett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to improve their organizations’ cultures. They are discouraged by misguided beliefs that an executive’s tenure and an organization’s attention span are too short for meaningful transformation. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. He demonstrates that an effective culture supplies the trust that makes managing change of all kinds easier. It provides a foundation on which changes in strategy can be based, and it’s a competitive edge that can’t easily be hacked or copied. Examining leading companies around the world, Heskett details how organizational culture makes employees more loyal, more productive, and more creative. He discusses how to quantify its effects in order to sell the notion of culture change to the organization and considers how to preserve an organization’s culture in the face of the trend toward remote work hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Showing how leadership can bring about significant changes in a surprisingly short time span, Win from Within offers a playbook for developing and deploying culture that enables outsized results. It is a groundbreaking demonstration of organizational culture’s role as a foundation for strategic success—and its measurable impact on the bottom line.

Download or read book Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture written by Ralph H. Kilmann and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1985-10-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together leading authorities' major approaches to understanding, managing, and changing organizational cultures. Presents methods for identifying cultural norms, strengthening positive aspects of existing cultures, and building new cultures to support organizational goals and strategies."--Sloan Management Review

Download or read book The Corporate Culture Survival Guide written by Edgar H. Schein and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-08-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate culture pioneer Edgar H. Schein gets back to basics and delivers a dynamite primer on changing cultures packed with practical advice. Here, Schein separates the sense from the nonsense regarding culture change theory and practice and tells in plain terms how readers can assess their organization to determine if its current culture fits its people and products. He then examines corporate culture on three levels--behaviors, values, and shared assumptions--and shows how each factors into change initiatives. Framed around the questions managers ask most often, the book uses case studies to show what successful change looks like and to demonstrate how you can dismantle a dysfunctional culture. A Warren Bennis Book

Download or read book Revitalize Your Workplace written by Luna Z. and published by Xspurts.com. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative measures for reducing carbon footprintThe book, "Revitalize Your Workplace: The Secrets to Success," is an indispensable guide designed to nurture a healthy and thriving work environment. Suitably for both established businesses and aspiring start-ups, this book offers invaluable strategies to improve employee satisfaction, foster professional growth, and enhance productivity.Delve into the art of building a healthy workplace culture through the understanding of its importance and how to instill values that bring about positive behavioral shifts. Walk through the pivotal role of leadership in fostering a healthy work environment, inspiring trust and respect while encouraging teamwork and collaboration.Learn how pacing work responsibly plays a crucial role in employee health, while understanding the early signs of overworking. You will also discover how respect and equality remain fundamental building blocks in maintaining harmony in the workplace.The book balances the discussion between setting realistic work-related expectations and the employees' need for personal time. It underlines the importance of employee wellness programs, offering suggestions for effective programs, and inviting full employee participation. You will also gain insights into the aesthetics of office space design and its impact on mood and productivity. Exposure to continual skill development, regular feedback, and recognition forms the backbone of employee growth, and conflict resolution becomes an essential part of creating a sound environment. The book evaluates workplace policies and rules and emphasizes the need for a clear communication channel.To add a contemporary touch, the author has included a chapter on mental health support at work, promoting mental health awareness, and providing necessary support systems. Trust forms a key element, and the book underscores the importance of avoiding micromanagement, promoting respect, and ensuring transparency. It concludes with a chapter on sustainability at work, emphasizing going green, and encourages employee involvement in reducing carbon footprints."Revitalize Your Workplace: The Secrets to Success" acts as a compendium of effective solutions for common workplace challenges, offering concrete strategies for fostering a culture that nurtures talent, supports wellness, and promotes resilience among its employees. Transform your workspace from mundane to extraordinary; the secrets to success are just a page away!

Download or read book Management 3 0 written by Jurgen Appelo and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a realistic approach to leading, managing, and growing your Agile team or organization. Written for current managers and developers moving into management, Appelo shares insights that are grounded in modern complex systems theory, reflecting the intense complexity of modern software development. Recognizes that today's organizations are living, networked systems; that you can't simply let them run themselves; and that management is primarily about people and relationships. Deepens your understanding of how organizations and Agile teams work, and gives you tools to solve your own problems. Identifies the most valuable elements of Agile management, and helps you improve each of them.