Organizational Culture

Today’s offices don’t encourage us to mingle - but that’s what creativity and productivity demand.

Few companies measure whether the design of their workspaces helps or hurts performance, but they should. The authors have collected data that capture individuals’ interactions, communications, and location information. They’ve learned that face-to-face interactions are by far the most important activity in an office; creating chance encounters between knowledge workers, both inside and outside the organization, improves performance.

The key elements that need to be prioritized to generate a culture that boosts real innovation.

How can we create an innovation team that can deliver value and that knows how to work in the different business lifecycle stages? Sara Pedraz highlights three requirements for creating innovative teams that accelerate an organization to achieve its goals. She notes that Innovative teams are balanced teams that explore crazy moonshot ideas while continuously reflecting upon them. Some of their protocols entail collaboration and coming up with solutions to produce satisfactory results. Let's read to find out more.

Hollie Delaney is taking lessons from her time at the online shoe retailer to her new CHRO gig at a national remodeling company.

Hollie Delaney is a successful HR that developed into a CHRO and then Chief of the people at Zappos. She learned a lot in terms of culture in her 14 years tenure in the company that she took and applies in her future endeavors. While at Zappos, she fueled the firm's cultural success by gearing up the company to create an environment where people could be themselves and bring their whole selves to work. Delaney now reiterates the lessons she acquired at Zappos and how she intends to incorporate them as the new Chief of People at Power Home Remodeling.

What the CEO of Airbnb thinks about culture, and why it is so important to nurture the shared passion of your employees.

How to master the process that’s transforming management

The authors identify six crucial elements for the success of agile transformation efforts: 1) Understanding how agile really works; 2) Knowing when it is appropriate; 3) Starting small and letting passionate evangelists spread the word; 4) Enabling teams that have mastered the process to customize their practices; 5) Incorporate agile at the top; and 6) Remove corporate agile barriers. The article expands on each item, providing a practical guide for agile implementations.

A guide through the proven steps that leaders around the globe have applied to change their culture.

The culture practiced in an organization determines the quality of value it delivers to its customers. Sometimes, changing the organizational culture improves the quality of its output overall, but it requires effort and focus. The article guides us through several fundamental steps of "how to change your organizational culture." We learn that switching to a new culture is a journey and leaders should be first in line.