A corporate CEO invited some executives to a meeting from two different levels. He asked a question and then went around the table for answers. When he got to one of the lower level executives, he said: "Sorry, I just want to hear from (the higher level) guys" and moved…
How positive is your current culture, on a scale of 1 to 10? It’s a question that participants of the online Positive Culture Academy reflect on - and work with if needed. What would your score be, and would you like to improve it? One participant shared: “Maybe a 2…
Exciting news: the publisher offers the Kindle version of my Positive Culture book at only 99 cents from 26-28 June! Benefit from these 3 magic days and download your copy today. I also collected 16 quotes from my book as a super condensed mini-course (see below)! Which one is your…
Why do I care about contributing to positive organizations? Maybe because I know what it's like to be "doing time" within a locked building, ruled by the clock. I've been there. If this is our only turn on planet Earth our time is priceless. Being worried about Mondays is not…
Kim Cameron, professor and associate dean at the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship from the University of Michigan, is doing great work. Not only did he develop the famous Competing Values Framework and the associated Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument, he's also one of the go-to researchers on Positive Organizational Scholarship.…
Is there proof that organizational culture determines performance? Look at the ground-breaking study of Professors John Kotter and James Heskett in their book Corporate Culture and Performance. They studied the corporate cultures of over 200 companies (including Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago) and tracked their economic performances over…
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