Culture

The world’s best strategy activation leader intuitively lives by these beliefs and knows they’re no longer measured by their individual brilliance but by their ability to serve others by shifting mindsets and building capabilities across the enterprise.

How do we create conversations that can change our teams, organizations, and even the world? How can we create meeting spaces people look forward to being in? How do we make our meetings safe spaces for honest conversations? Here are some of the tenets of the art of thinking together.

More is lost by indecision than by making the wrong decision. Yes, the wrong decision is better than indecision.

For so many organizations, performance improvement has become something of a stalemate. We wag our finger at underperformers and then point at the high performers, saying, “Why can’t you be more like them?” We showcase our highest achievers at annual conferences or in company-wide webinars and ask them to tell us what makes them so great. After all, since their work is so exceptional, they must have some tricks of the trade to share, right?

The elevation to high performance took a major leap by understanding and appreciating each other’s stories.

When a senior team makes behavioral ground rules or behavioral expectations like this for the team as a whole and for each member individually, they’ll be well on their way to high performance

The CHRO is a critical component of long-term organizational growth, so how can CEOs empower their CHROs to give rise to growth?

Keeping your people engaged after a reduction in force

Making your strategy make it feasible, relevant, and sustainable is the key to long lasting results.

The holidays are often a hectic time of year. What are you doing to keep your people engaged? Here are three tips to use now and all year long.

Eight lessons to ensure you're invigorating the power of human beings to make a difference.

To maintain a positive culture that drives results, leaders need to constantly nurture it. Throw in a global pandemic and the need becomes exponentially greater precisely when we are most distracted. But positive culture in this environment is not optional – it’s necessary! Here are three strategies you can implement immediately.

Today I'm discussing change & consistent CX. Today you need to either keep pace with change or risk failure. And when it coems to CX, organizations need to be consistent because the experiences created for customers are the pathway to success or failure.

Jennifer Brown provides a step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Not long ago, several of us at Root got a chance to work with a Division I college football team to help reestablish a high-performance culture and team.

Values, purpose and mission should align to the work an organization does—and all the decisions made along the way

Over the past 20 years, we have seen a proliferation of diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts in organizations. In some cases, the efforts have paid off.

This graduation season, I attended five graduation ceremonies. The volume is a bit uncommon for me, and the diversity of the students was even more unusual.

There is nothing better than working in an organization that has a great culture. According to Deloitte, 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe

I recently read an article in Fast Company about burying the term “work-life balance” and embracing “work-life fulfillment” instead. I don’t disagree.

The following is an excerpt from Erica Kewsin’s Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That is Good for People

What will it take to be a place people not only want to work, but love to work? A persistent and consistent commitment to designing culture.

The fate of your strategy hinges on everyone in your organization getting their heads, hearts, and minds around a new way – the needed culture change.

If you are not considering your corporate culture and how that may or may not fare through M&A, you are likely doomed - it’s the lifeline of your company.

This excerpt from Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear is written to help leaders bring a renewed sense of joy

January marks my one-year anniversary with Root Inc. As I reflect on the day I received the call to lead the Food & Hospitality practice, I remember

Fearlessness is enabled by creating a psychologically safe environment that makes it possible for productive disagreement and free exchange of ideas.

Do your people feel good about the ways your organization contributes to the community? Today, giving to the community is a vibrant part of our culture.

Does everyone in your organization have the opportunity to get recognition? I really value this particular question on the Great Place to Work survey

In your culture, are managers approachable and easy to talk to? This question highlights the importance of leadership approachability in workplace culture.

On September 30th, Rich Berens and I were invited to a meeting at the White House focusing on how to create sustainable business practices

The cover story of the April 2016 Harvard Business Review (HBR) issue carried the headline, “You Can’t Fix Culture,” which challenged traditional views

“Bright spots” does not equal best practices. We sat down with research managers Kari Terzino and Sam Need for a behind-the-scenes look

Emotional Intelligence, or EQ (Emotional Quotient) as it is commonly called, emerged as a hot topic back in the mid-1980s. Yet, today EQ is more relevant

We sat down with two Root executives this month – Founder and CEO Jim Haudan and Consultant (and millennial) Kara Davidson – to discuss personal purpose

Have you ever dated someone and come to the realization a few weeks into the relationship that the actual version of the person you’re dating is actually

Companies often have a hard time understanding why their junior or mid-level staff is frustrated with the direction of the company or with senior management

Scott Thompson was Yahoo’s CEO for only four months last year before he was fired for listing a bachelor’s degree in computer science that he didn’t have

Many organizations attempt to create a climate of accountability with robust performance management systems. The hope is that by building

College Basketball. UCLA. Ten NCAA National Championship titles in 12 years, seven of those consecutively. Coach: John Robert Wooden.

I love a good provocative philosophical debate! A classic example: Are we who we are because of nature or nurture? Most people will say its both

Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot just by watching.” On a plane last week, the second we touched down, I observed most people around me

When we think about the “future of workplace learning,” it sounds like a big, heady topic best left to the academic elite to solve.