Do you have gurus or heroes who inspire you? I am honored to be ranked #5 of thirty organizational culture gurus for 2017. This is wonderful, of course, but the list got me thinking. I find myself a little ambivalent towards stardom and heroes. This may be a cultural issue. I was raised in a rather egalitarian and feminine national culture in the Netherlands. These are two dimensions of Geert Hofstede’s culture model that compares national (and organizational) cultures.

What is your biggest challenge with organizational culture? That’s an extra question we ask all free respondents who use the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument. Just because we’re curious - what are you struggling with? What do you need help with? What can I blog about to inspire you?

There’s a long list of interesting topics submitted by over 25,000 people over the last two years.

Multinational Collaboration

One returning topic is multinational or international collaboration. Here are some challenges people submitted:

How has your year been? It's time to evaluate, and develop new intentions. My intention is to inspire toward positive organizations where people and performance thrive.

OCAI Online aims to contribute to positive workplaces by offering the online culture survey so people can work on their culture.

What is positive change? What is a positive organization? Why would we bother to practice positive leadership, and create a positive culture? For some, the answer is obvious, for others not at all.

As we have seen in my blog post on positive leadership: the why is rather obvious. We want to help positive change succeed and create a positive organization because it makes people happier and more productive. The performance of a positive organization can be astounding.