Author April LundyCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Internal CommunicationsLeave a comment on Culture Continuity Culture Continuity
How do you keep culture continuity when your whole workforce is at home?
Author Stacey PieferCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Internal CommunicationsLeave a comment on The Astros Had a Culture Problem, Not a Cheating One The Astros Had a Culture Problem, Not a Cheating One
As I write this, the Houston Astros are fresh off of hiring a new manager.
Author April LundyCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Internal CommunicationsLeave a comment on Is Your Culture Creating Real Connection? Is Your Culture Creating Real Connection?
Human beings crave connection.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Conscious Leadership, Culture/Employee Engagement, Innovation, Purpose, StrategyLeave a comment on How Consensus Kills Innovation How Consensus Kills Innovation
You know the feeling: You’ve just left a meeting in which everyone has discussed a pressing issue, considered the pros and cons, and arrived at a plan for moving forward that everyone can agree with.
Author Savage BrandsCategories Conscious Leadership, Culture/Employee Engagement, Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Bethany Andell featured on “WatchHerWork” Bethany Andell featured on “WatchHerWork”
Watch Bethany answer some tough questions on power and money for WatchHerWork.
Author Savage BrandsCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Jackie Dryden featured on “WatchHerWork” Jackie Dryden featured on “WatchHerWork”
Watch Jackie answer some tough questions on career transitions, office dynamics, and believing in your creativity for WatchHerWork.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Organizational Change/Alignment, PurposeLeave a comment on A Powerful Way to Build Trust: Align Your Organizational Operations with Your Purpose A Powerful Way to Build Trust: Align Your Organizational Operations with Your Purpose
Lack of alignment between what is said and how a business operates will quickly derail any attempt to becoming a purposeful brand, and erode trust. Even the most devout believers in a company’s why will quickly become discouraged if the way a company conducts business does not match what it professes to stand for.
Author Bethany AndellCategories Conscious Leadership, Culture/Employee Engagement, PurposeLeave a comment on Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsi, Makes the Case for Corporate Purpose Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsi, Makes the Case for Corporate Purpose
My friend Darcie Durham with Boeing hosted me at the Greater Houston Partnership leadership luncheon. The speaker was Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo and it was moderated by Scott McClelland, President of HEB. I don’t hear much about “corporate” PepsiCo and before this talk I didn’t know much about Indra. However, what she had to say about leadership and building a sustainably successful company was so in sync with how I view the role of leaders in business today that I felt like we were kindred spirits.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, PurposeLeave a comment on Two Generations Push for Meaning and Purpose in the Workplace Two Generations Push for Meaning and Purpose in the Workplace
What is it with these Millennials? Well maybe we aren’t all so different after all. While much is written about the “Millennial effect” on the workplace, when it comes to the shared mindset of purpose in the business environment, this is driven not by one, but by two generations at opposite ends of the career spectrum—Millennials and Baby Boomers.
Author Jackie DrydenCategories Culture/Employee Engagement, Purpose, Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Are Today’s Business Leaders Losing Their Vision? Are Today’s Business Leaders Losing Their Vision?
One of my favorite ad headlines states, “You don’t open a Bike Shop to Run a Balance Sheet.” You open a bike shop because you love bicycles. You are passionate about riding them, talking about them and sharing them with others. This is how most great businesses are started. Someone with a personal passion recognizes a need in the marketplace, takes a risk and starts a company to share their vision with the world.