Most organizations try to change workplace behavior through education, communication campaigns, and training, but these ...

The oft-quoted phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast” has been attributed to Peter Drucker (see “Does culture really eat strategy for breakfast?”). Even if Drucker didn’t say it, the idea that ...

In 2023, I delivered a session for Chicktech’s Annual Conference on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion. I adopted that talk into an overview on how to drive cultural change in your ...

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost during return to Earth. A group of distinguished experts was appointed to comprise the Columbia Accident Investigation ...

A healthy organizational culture is good for business. “Companies with healthy cultures have three times greater total returns to shareholders,” McKinsey partner Brooke Weddle said in a podcast ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. Organizational culture, an anthropological metaphor used to ...

A strong organizational culture can reduce the need for managers. That’s because when a culture is strong, workers have sufficiently internalized goals and values to act autonomously and effectively ...

A business's culture is its organizational backbone. As potential customers and employees have become increasingly interested in learning what a business is all about beyond its product or service ...

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...

Success requires understanding—and measuring—the potential disconnect between the culture of an organization and the strategy under consideration. Cultures can change, but they can’t change radically ...