By Skip Weisman A partner in a small professional services firm with 13 employees was struggling with an employee coming to work on time. Despite repeated conversations with this employee, the behavior continued. Eventually, others in the company saw this person stretching the boundaries and began to behave in a similar pattern. Soon this workplace […]
By Skip Weisman Peter Drucker, the guru of organizational development consulting, was quoted as saying that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” Since I mentioned that quote last month it may be useful for you to learn just what type of cultures there are, and which ones support company progress towards fulfilling strategy and which get eaten. […]
By Skip Weisman The CEO of a small, but well respected not-for-profit in my community told me she wanted to improve teamwork, create less resistance to it, and make it more consistent within her organization’s culture. As I probed deeper she commented, “We need to break down the silos in our organization, too.” When I heard […]
By Skip Weisman Imagine a Major League Baseball player playing 162 regular season games without receiving input on how his performance impacts the team. Then, at the end of the season, the manager brings him into the office and tells him he let the team down and pointed out […]