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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Employee perks and benefits play a huge role in ensuring that employees feel comfortable in all aspects of their life Organizational culture has a powerful impact on employees Organizations that build ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...