How to Fix Your Company’s Culture of Overwork
Harvard Business
MARCH 18, 2024
The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 18, 2024
The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.
Harmonious Workplaces
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Chicago, IL – November 29, 2024 – Harmonious Workplaces, an organizational development and change management consultancy, has released Shermie the HR Hermit Crab, an 88-page cartoon book that humorously tackles common workplace challenges.
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Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, we’d love to hear from you! This book will train you to think differently and see business from a different perspective. This book will challenge you and encourage you as you go on a journey with the author through the life of Steve Jobs. consulting books'
Management Consulted
JULY 24, 2016
it’s time for another book review! This time, our intern and ex-Deloitte dreamboat Preeti read Michael Porter’s book on competition and took the time to let you know how she felt about it. In the book, Porter has addressed a number of key question like: “How do companies compete in a particular business?”,
Epicflow
JANUARY 31, 2023
At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. What else will you find in this book?
Harvard Business
APRIL 18, 2024
The author, who wrote a book on mental health and work last year, explores several key ways organizations haven’t gone far enough in implementing a culture of well-being. Companies are investing in — and talking about — mental health more often these days. But employees aren’t reporting a corresponding rise in well-being.
Consulting Success
MARCH 28, 2022
Shannon Susko‘s book, Metronomics, explains what systems your company needs to grow. Balancing strategy, execution, cash, cultural, cohesive, human, and leadership is very important. Learn how to unite these systems into one regimen that works for you and your team.
Harvard Business
JULY 12, 2018
As a Bersin report pointed out: “The single biggest driver of business impact is the strength of an organization’s learning culture.” Here are four science-based recommendations to help you create a learning culture on your team or in your organization: Reward continuous learning. ” You and Your Team Series.
Effective Managers
JANUARY 14, 2021
With that in mind, we wanted to talk more about accountability and how you can create a culture of accountability at your organization. The Importance of Having a Culture of Accountability at Work. A culture of accountability can create positivity, engagement, and productivity among the workforce. But how do you build it?
Chad Barr
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Global Communication: Your insights need to resonate across cultures and languages. Drawing from decades of experience working with elite consultants and global organizations, the book provides a practical roadmap for creating and deploying powerful visuals that amplify your message and expertise.
Harvard Business
JULY 24, 2018
Relationship-heavy cultures are marked by inclusion, personal connection, and relationship-based decision making. Researcher, consultant, and author Pam Heim has studied gender differences and has published her findings in several books. ” Create a healthy feedback culture. They tend to be friendly, warm places to work.
Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 16, 2021
However, blaming doesn't create an effective culture. That's why it's worth discussing the role congruence plays in your culture. What Role Does Congruence Play in Your Culture? I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. I've said that culture is: What we can discuss. The teams are stretched too thin.
Consulting Success
JUNE 8, 2020
A book can be your business card, your ultimate branding tool which can help you take off in your career or business. Martin is a brand and culture transformation expert and the Founder of Lindstrom Company. In today’s episode, Michael Zipursky and Martin Lindstrom talk about branding tips for consultants.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 8, 2021
As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. This is a series: Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1. It's time for performance reviews. What do we do? Can we extend whatever that is to our hiring effort?
Johanna Rothman
MAY 31, 2023
Many nonfiction writers start books with outlines. Or, some writers (raises hand) are prone to put everything she ever learned about this topic into one book. Either of those problems make it difficult to finish a book before the writer dies. Either of those problems make it difficult to finish a book before the writer dies.
LSA Global
DECEMBER 2, 2024
return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) can be directly attributed to the decisions and strategies implemented by the CEO. Aligning Culture with Strategy We know from organizational culture assessment data that a company’s strategy must go through its culture to be successfully implemented.
Consulting Success
MARCH 25, 2019
Accountability expert, keynote speaker, and author Samuel Silverstein aims to continually cultivate accountability in diverse organizational cultures. He is also a bestselling author of seven books. When he left the corporate world and sold his business, he started to hasten skills in writing, speaking, and consulting.
Epicflow
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Managing distributed teams, coordinating their efforts, and allocating them to project tasks effectively can be challenging due to culture and communication barriers, different time zones, and a lack of visibility into team members’ skills, capacity, and availability. A great number of engineering companies hire workers from across the globe.
LSA Global
JUNE 6, 2024
Cultural Hierarchy at Work Matters Today’s leaders face incredible challenges and pressures. Organizational changes must go through people and culture to be successfully implemented. First Level of Cultural Hierarchy at Work: Cultural Artifacts In archaeology, artifacts are objects that reveal something about a past culture.
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 9, 2022
” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. In contrast, a flow efficiency culture watches the flow of the work. What does your culture value? Or does the culture value throughput, so people collaborate on the flow of the work?
Halo Psych
JANUARY 13, 2025
As Professor Carol Dweck says in her book, Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential , Those concrete plans – plans you can visualize – about WHEN, WHERE and HOW you are going to do something lead to really high levels of follow-through, which of course, ups the chances of success (p.238).
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. The first step is to identify the real problem you need to solve.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2023
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2023
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 6, 2024
In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? And in these books: Manage It! Too few organizations can do that.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 22, 2019
And she argues that kind of organizational culture is increasingly important in the modern economy. Edmondson is the author of the new book “The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.” ”
Tom Spencer
MARCH 28, 2025
These models are trained on massive datasets comprising books, articles, websites, and other textual sources. Output will reflect the information as well as biases present in the training data, which can lead to responses that are inaccurate, a threat to public safety, culturally insensitive, or otherwise politically untenable.
Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Now picture this: Consultants and coaches equipped with the knowledge, skills, and data to influence this type of culture transformation! We chat about how to create organizational cultures that put the people first , even in today’s complex and ever-changing marketplace, and how ensuring fit sets the stage for everyone to thrive.
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 13, 2021
The current culture pulls them one way. The culture changes—or lack of changes—freeze them. The middle managers think they can't easily change the culture. See A Contrarian’s Perspective on Agile Mindset, Behaviors, Culture.). Read the Modern Management Made Easy books. They're stuck. But they can.
On the Brink Podcast
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Can you build better businesses by creating positive cultures in which people can work with joy instead of dread? That's the premise of Marcella Bremer's book, Deve loping a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive , which focuses on helping organizations achieve more effective, productive cultures.
On the Brink
JULY 8, 2021
Yes, we discussed my new book, Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business , but we also delved into how the old ways of viewing gender and diversity are changing, not just for today but for generations to come.
Harvard Business
MARCH 26, 2019
In Europe, women told Collins they had more help, but at times cultural norms around their personal and professional roles had yet to catch up. She’s the author of the book “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.” ”
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results,” the subject of much of this “New World of Work” interview. His big idea is that “geeks” have created not only the technology that’s driving our future but also a management approach that defines contemporary corporate excellence.
Harvard Business
MARCH 24, 2017
When we think about startup cultures, we imagine ping pong tables, kegerators, and Nerf guns. However, this startup cultural utopia invariably hits a rough patch for about 70% of startups in years three to four, regardless of how happy the team was before. We call this the “cultural chasm.”
Rick Conlow
AUGUST 4, 2021
Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. They create winning cultures through authenticity, teamwork, and personal development. Pulling It All Together.
Consulting Success
JANUARY 15, 2018
Global Context was born, and 12 years later he has been working in all aspects of cultural communications — from the challenges within one organization to the cultural differences that are always apparent, and often the killer, of any acquisition or merger. Building A Business on Cross-Cultural Communications.
Consulting Matters
JANUARY 9, 2020
Given responsibilities that require cross-cultural interactions. Click here to book your session now. Leaders who have the most to gain from an executive coach include: Successful leaders who are: In transition (i.e., new role or have significant changes in present role). In a volatile, high-change environment.
Simon Associates
OCTOBER 11, 2022
You might want to take a look at Byron Reese’s new book, Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future—and Shape It. The gap is something that comes from our brains moving far faster thinking than our voices can communicate those thoughts.
Consulting Success
MAY 31, 2018
Michael was recently featured on Your First Thousand Clients podcast, which you can listen to here: Michael Zipursky: Building a Relationship Culture, The First Part of the Success Process In this episode of Your First Thousand Clients, you get to hear me in action — talking with Mitch as if he were one of my coaching clients.
Halo Psych
OCTOBER 25, 2024
His book, Influence: The psychology of persuasion , remains a best seller 40 years after it was first published, in 1984. In his book, he outlined the six principles of influence he had identified through his scientific research and his work with corporate clients. In 2021, he updated the book to include a new, seventh principle.
Rick Conlow
DECEMBER 20, 2021
A nasty company culture and oppressive management behavior reduces employee performance and drives them away. Values and Culture Drive Employee Retention. Here is where to start, redefine or reignite your values and culture. People today want positive work cultures that make the world a nicer and safer place.
Consulting Matters
MAY 26, 2022
It's the subject of her keynote and her book, which I initially thought would be the focus of our conversation. Isao gave her behind-the-scenes insight into the role of learning and the continuous improvement culture of Toyota. Visit Katie at [link] and check out her book, "Learning to Lead, Leading To Learn.".
Johanna Rothman
MAY 24, 2021
When I think about changing outcomes, I think about culture change. Of the four factors, how can we create a culture that encourages happiness? We might create that culture this way: Create the “good” kind of stress. When I want to deliver books, I need a team to create a final delivery. Or that I experiment.
Seth Godin Blog
MARCH 14, 2025
Huge swaths of our culture are based on this simple approach to intellectual property. Mass media was the way creators could spread the tension and announce their work. ” It’s worth distinguishing these knock knock offerings from cultural organizations, communities, and tools. That’s not true for The Power Broker.
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