Preserving vs. shaping culture?

To what extent are you preserving the good, bad and ugly of your organizational culture versus actively shaping it? If your organization is like most that I work with, you are trying to adjust your culture to fit changing circumstances. For example, you may desire...

Living in the land of “No, but.”

Remember the character NoNo from the 2005 fable Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber? NoNo serves as his penguin colony’s community weather forecaster. He’s negative about everything and everyone one...

When good habits go bad

At least 40% of what you we do each day follows a script, according to Dr. Wendy Wood and her fellow researchers. These scripted behaviors are the habits we’ve adopted over the years. Many of these habits help us start our day each work morning. By unconsciously going...