Intentional Culture

There are organizations that are unintentional about their cultures. Leaders of these institutions don’t perceive the value of spending time defining and sustaining their cultures. They don’t realize that a well-defined, intentional culture is so valuable that it can serve as a critical differentiating factor within their market(s). There are multiple factors that contribute to [...]

Neutralize Your Biases When Making Decisions

Regardless of how vigilant we are when making decisions, sometimes we allow known or indiscernible biases to penetrate our process, coloring them with assumptions, misinterpretations, and opinions. As a leader, you are involved with making decisions about persons that can permanently impact their lives so with great responsibility comes the need to demonstrate objectivity and fairness. [...]

Moving From Avoidance to Accountability

The words evasion, prevention and avoidance all have both constructive and dysfunctional applications. For instance, avoidance can be calculated inaction that will serve the greater good. You can take actions that can help you to avert a catastrophe and save jobs or you can decide to avoid an immediate decision because you fear the consequences [...]

Build Your Culture

Organizational culture is dynamic, it is constantly evolving and each culture has its own personality.  The dynamics of culture form patterns of behavior based on shared beliefs, values, assumptions, traditions and norms.  These patterns are contributed to by all employees, some drive the culture, some attempt counter-cultural activities and there are those who do not [...]