Leadership

Culture is everywhere where people get together. You don't need to be a co-worker: sometimes you even have a better vantage point as a visitor or a client.

Over the past weeks, I've had many encounters with small companies as a client. As we were rebuilding and furnishing our vacation home we were working side by side with our contractor's employees who tiled the kitchen and bathroom, installed the appliances, rewired the electricity, and so on. Next, I met the boys of the delivery services transporting the new beds and other things that we bought online.

Do you or your clients need their organizations to be more innovative, agile, productive, and engaging? Then helping them develop a more positive culture is something to seriously consider.

Organizational culture is one of my favorite topics. That's why I work with and write about it. At the occasion of my new book "Developing a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive", one of our OCAI partners, consultant Andrea Simon, interviewed me for her blog. Let me share some parts of that interview. Could the Positive Culture book be helpful for your team or organization as well?

Andrea: Who are you, and why are you so involved in helping organizations get their "Culture" right?

Here’s a question that people often ask me: “Our company grew from 100 employees to over 600 in the last three years. How could we keep the core values consistent and in front of everyone?”

Someone else: “The organizational culture becomes diluted as new employees join in and bring in characteristics from other organizations.”