Do you really know what your company culture is? Can you define it in a way outsiders would understand? That may be more complicated than we think. I was reminded of this when I attended a client’s Leadership Summit earlier this month. The CEO was adamant that the culture that made the company successful must

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As companies schedule their return to the office (RTO if you’re playing Buzzword Bingo), we have been checking into them with a simple question: How’s it going? Their answers fall into a couple of broad categories. Everything is fine and dandy A few report that everything’s great; they are either going to the exact some

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Wayne and the Wizard of Baker Street.What does leading a remote team have to do with Sherlock Holmes? Whether or not you play the violin, smoke a pipe, or enjoy deerstalker hats, there’s one important similarity. Most of the time, when something goes wrong, we don’t witness it ourselves and have to find out what happened.I

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We are reading a lot about Return to Office (RTO) and how it’s critical to company culture that people get together. In fact, senior executives are telling us they are depending on it to maintain or create the culture they want. But what if your workplace culture is toxic? Does getting together help or make

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Is your IT department your savior, your enemy or something in between? It might be all those things, but have you ever compared your Head of Technology to Sauron, the bad guy from Lord of the Rings? I was talking to a client the other day about the challenges remote workers face and the subject

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In May of 2020, IBM polled thousands of its workers about how they can make work from home work. How do the ideas put forward work two and a half years later? First, let’s take a look at the key points of the “pledge” the company created for its employees based on their findings. You

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When you hear the words Professional Development, what comes to mind? Many people immediately think about terms such as “succession planning,” or “career path.” While those things certainly require new skills and knowledge, focusing on training for the next job may cause as many problems as it solves. Someone once described the normal corporate career

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“The biggest threat to organizations is the quiet quitting trend…” If you’ve read this headline, or others like it, you probably were either mildly intrigued or completely outraged.Your response says as much about your attitude to your work as anything ever will. Every once in a while, the business press gets hold of an idea

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Recently a friend of mine, a great proponent of working from home, (WFH for the initiated) stepped down from his job as CEO because of exhaustion and burnout and a need to recalibrate his life. Within a week I learned of several others who have done the same, or are planning to do so soon.

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