Ann Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Unhealthy culture is at the heart of scandal. Daily headlines, soundbites, and tweets surface decisions ...

People come together and join forces for a reason. To achieve the purpose effectively and efficiently, they create an organization. The sum total of those individuals' shared beliefs, norms, attitudes ...

Every group of people has a culture, a way of understanding and expressing the world, their group, and themselves. Organizations are no exception. Research shows that the leadership of an organization ...

As a thought leader when it comes to culture and the impact it has on business, I quite frequently get approached by business leaders who want to build a strong organizational culture. Understanding ...

The British Standards Institution (BSI) defines organizational resilience as “the ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions ...

Ensuring your HR team is appropriately organized and structured is critical to your success. Here’s more about the types of ...

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 ...

Success requires understanding—and measuring—the potential disconnect between the culture of an organization and the strategy under consideration. Cultures can change, but they can’t change radically ...

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