Steven Sinofsky
Tools are often successful because of the culture that implemented the tool, not because of the culture the tool created. […] The key to introducing a new tool is looking at what is being abandoned in tools and processes, not what is being added.
Content: Quotation | Author: Steven Sinofsky | Source: Medium | Subjects: Culture, Management
Bill Aulet
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, operational excellence for lunch, and everything else for dinner.
Content: Quotation | Author: Bill Aulet | Subjects: Culture, Operations, Organizational Behavior, Strategy
Ed Catmull
You donโt want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out. Seek out people who are willing to level with you, and […] hold them close.
Content: Quotation | Author: Ed Catmull | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Communication, Culture, Organizational Behavior
Adam Grant
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not too much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesnโt atrophy. What happens when startups get successful and grow is that they become more and more vulnerable to the attraction-selection-attrition cycle, where people of the same stripes are increasingly drawn to the organization, chosen by it and retained at it. The โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Adam Grant | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Culture, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Natalie Baumgartner
We know from research literature that there are not right or wrong cultures. What we know is that there is no certain type of culture that predicts high performance. What predicts this is culture alignment โ you understand your core values, and everything you do, how you hire, develop, mentor, guide, engage your employees. When the values are aligned, those organizations are way more profitable. โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Natalie Baumgartner | Source: Techstars | Subjects: Culture, Management, Organizational Behavior
Erin Meyer
At a deep level, no matter where we come from, we are driven by common physiological and psychological needs and motivations. Yet the culture in which we grow up in has a significant bearing on the ways we see communication patterns as effective or undesirable, to find certain arguments persuasive or lacking merit, to consider certain ways of making decisions or measuring time โnaturalโ or โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Erin Meyer | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Culture, Decision Making, International, Personality / Behavior, Thought
Sam Altman
Donโt compromise on the quality of people you hire. Everyone knows this, and yet everyone compromises on this at some point during a desperate need. Everyone goes on to regret it, and it sometimes almost kills the company. Good and bad people are both infectious, and if you start with mediocre people, the average does not usually trend up. […] Finally, fire quickly. Everyone knows โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Altman | Subjects: Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Organizational Behavior
How Did Jeff Bezos Scale Amazon Without Destroying Its Entrepreneurial Culture?
Running a start-up is profoundly different than running a big company. When youโre small, founders are close to the action and can make sure all the important things happen. But as a start-up scales, founders canโt have their hands in everything: many companies lose focus on the customer; decisions get bogged down; and there are hiring mistakes. Weโve all seen these things happen to good โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Boris Wertz | Source: Venture One | Subjects: Culture, Entrepreneurship | Company: Amazon.com Inc.
3 Situations Where Cross-Cultural Communication Breaks Down
The strength of cross-cultural teams is their diversity of experience, perspective, and insight. But to capture those riches, colleagues must commit to open communication; they must dare to share. Unfortunately, this is rarely easy. In the 25 years weโve spent researching global work groups, weโve found that challenges typically arise in three areas.
Content: Article | Author: Ginka Toegel | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Culture, International, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork
Erin Meyer
We all come from somewhere. Where we come from affects the way we view things, and the way we understand one another. In every international situation, some things are cultural, and some things are personal. If itโs cultural, then you need to help people in the room understand that, for example, when someone speaks in a way that is startlingly direct, thatโs because where he โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Erin Meyer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Culture, International, Organizational Behavior
Erin Meyer
The advantage to having people from all over the world on a team is that you may find that you have more innovation and creativity, and that youโre closer to your local markets. The disadvantage is that multinational teamwork is usually a lot less efficient than monocultural teamwork. When weโre all from the same culture, we donโt have to talk about how we work together. โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Erin Meyer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Culture, International, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork
You Hire for Culture Fit – But Have You Established What Your Culture Is?
The somewhat vague concept of โculture fitโ remains a factor in virtually every hire that is made, and a factor considered vital by both employers and candidates. Having said that, the way in which a candidateโs culture fit is typically assessed invites unconscious biases that can result in less than optimal hiring decisions. Candidly, culture fit is a vague and unscientific concept that warrants careful โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Kristi Riordan | Source: Medium | Subjects: Culture, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Andy Molinsky
If youโve ever received any cross-cultural training … chances are… it has focused on differences: differences in communication styles (like how Japanese workers are less direct than Germans) or differences in values (like how Americans have more individualistic values than those in China). It may have even focused on differences in etiquette โ like how in the United States you can write on the back โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Culture, International, Organizational Behavior
Ray Dalio
Creating a great culture, finding the right people, managing them to do great things, and solving problems creatively and systematically are challenges faced by all organizations. What differentiates [organizations] is how they approach these challenges.
Content: Quotation | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Culture, Management, Organizational Behavior
Rick Hillier
There are three legs to the leadership stool: experience, training and education. The seat of the stool is mentoring, which holds everything together. If you develop leaders with that process in mind and a base of articulated values, you start to build the right culture, remove the impediments and begin to have an organization with leaders that are focused on people who are inclusive and โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Culture, Leadership, Organizational Behavior
Will Dean
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, and it’s far easier to keep the right culture on track than get the wrong one back on track.
Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Culture, Management, Organizational Behavior
Jon Katzenbach, Rutger von Post, and James Thomas
We have found, through numerous cultural interventions with a wide range of organizations […] that companies that eschew all-encompassing culture change initiatives and instead focus on three specific elementsโcritical behaviors, existing cultural traits, and critical informal leadersโhave the most success. We call these โthe critical few.โ
Content: Quotation | Authors: James Thomas, Jon R. Katzenbach, Rutger von Post | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Culture, Management, Organizational Behavior
David Greenberg
The future of risk management lies in an ability to incorporate and inspire more of the behaviors we want, finding new models to map, monitor, intervene, support, and react to the behaviors of individuals and groupsโboth the behaviors we want to encourage and those we’d like to avoid. Critically, this taking account of behavior means that we need a much sharper comprehensive strategy for corporate โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Culture, Risk Management
Peter Senge
Structure influences behavior. When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Senge | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior
Sir William Castell
Itโs clear to me that you can never have a single culture in an international company. Cultures are molded by countries, by fiscal systems, by the systems people work inโtheyโre different from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States, and theyโre different in Sweden, Norway and Japan. Anyone who believes they can impose a single corporate culture across a global company โฆ [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Sir William Castell | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Culture, International, Organizational Behavior