Why you need safety for a high-performing culture

Why you need safety for a high-performing culture

To what extent do you practice “safety first” – specifically psychological safety – in your team meetings and other group settings at work?  Harvard University Professor Amy Edmondson who studies psychological safety defines it “a shared belief that the team is...
How to develop people to grow profits

How to develop people to grow profits

What if your organization focused more on growing people rather than profits? People at all levels develop and the profits follow. That’s the principle of a “deliberatively developmental organization (DDO),” as described in An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately...

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...