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Companies repeatedly launch cost reduction programs—with mixed results. To cut costs sustainably, they need to redesign the organization and change the underlying behaviors that lead to cost creep.

Content: Article | Authors: Kevin Kelley, Miyabi Honda, Sarah Baxter, Travis Meyer | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Too often, companies focus on organizational structure at the expense of governance, leadership, and ways of working. Rigid structures lock talent into fixed teams. Companies fail to establish clear mechanisms for building future-proof competencies into the organization and to adopt company-wide mechanisms for structuring alignment across teams.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Andrew Toma, Benjamin Rehberg, Jaap Backx, Julia Madden | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Folks (often rightly) assume that in order to grow their influence and their career at a company, their value is measured in their number of direct reports. As a company, it’s vital to carve out career tracks for folks who want to be deep-diving ICs and technical subject matter experts, without devoting their time to solving people problems. So, for starters, consider how you’re rewarding … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Marcel Weekes | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

The biggest inequity in advancement remains the broken rung—the very first step up into a manager position. Proportionally, for every 100 men we see leap forward, only 87 women advance. And if you’re a woman of color, it’s 73. If you’re a Black woman, it’s only 54. And it starts at the very beginning of a career. The challenge with this is that it sets … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Alexis Krivkovich | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

Very often when you say the word “culture” or the words “culture clash” in the context of mergers and acquisitions, companies or people will say, “We both wear jeans to work and have beer at the end of the day on Friday,” and then they say, “Our cultures are the same, therefore things will be fine when we do mergers and acquisitions.” That’s a completely … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Emilie Feldman | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Culture, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organizational Behavior

“Move fast and break things” gave speed a bad name. You can move fast and take care of people. In fact, when you’re taking care of people, you can move even faster. People think the only way to fix things is to slow down. It’s not true. Meaningful change happens with momentum.

Content: Quotation | Author: Frances Frei | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

While most business leaders now believe having a diverse and inclusive culture is critical to performance, they don’t always know how to achieve that goal. Here are eight powerful truths that can help turn aspirations into reality.

Content: Article | Authors: Bernadette Dillon, Juliet Bourke | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained. One measure of a person is the degree to which they’ll do the right thing when it goes against popular belief.

Content: Quotation | Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Mergers and acquisitions, though powerful tools for growth, often fall short of expectations. One reason is a lack of focus on the integration experience of acquired employees. While companies tend to invest heavily in pre-deal due diligence, they frequently overlook the day-to-day realities faced by incoming employees—who often feel undervalued, unsupported, and overwhelmed—ultimately threatening deal success, long-term productivity, and retention. These challenges are preventable through planning … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Culture, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organizational Behavior

To unlock a team’s abilities, a manager at any level must spend a significant amount of time on two activities: helping the team understand the company’s direction and its implications for team members and coaching for performance.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Aaron De Smet, Marc Vinson, Monica McGurk | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

Organizations are intricate systems with various components interacting in diverse ways, making it impossible for any member, including the directors and the CEO, to have a complete picture of the organization, despite all efforts to collect data and information. Consequently, all members inevitably focus on partial observations of what happens and fill in the gaps of unobserved reality with their own beliefs and assumptions.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ekin Ilseven | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

So whether you’re a manager delivering feedback to your direct report, or sending feedback up the management chain, the best way to make your conversation heard is to make the listener feel safe, and to show that you’re saying it because you care about her and want her to succeed. “If you come off with even a whiff of an ulterior motive — you want … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Julie Zhuo | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

In fast-paced, complex business environments, it’s often hard to carve out the time for thoughtful, thorough analysis. Leaders might recognize that better questions lead to better decisions, but they aren’t sure exactly what to ask. These five questions can help. 1) What would happen if we did nothing? 2) What could make us regret this decision? 3) What alternatives did we overlook? 4) How will we … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Steven Morris | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior

A new study finds that revealing employee pay unexpectedly influences workplace dynamics in ways never demonstrated before.

Content: Article | Authors: Boris Maciejovsky, David Danelski | Source: Futurity.org | Subjects: Compensation, Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Managing organizational culture, often a challenge, is getting even harder with the rise of the alternative workforce. How can leaders bring independent contractors, telecommuters, and gig workers into their organization’s culture when so many of the traditional levers don’t apply?

Content: Article | Authors: Karen Reid, Kelly Monahan | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior

Storytelling is a key business skill. Here’s how to make your narratives more persuasive.

Content: Article | Authors: Craig Wortmann, Emily Stone, Liz Livingston Howard, Michelle L. Buck, Mitchell A. Petersen, Steven Franconeri | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Storytelling

It’s well known that understanding your boss’s priorities is crucial for career success. Yet many professionals find themselves guessing what their manager really wants or needs. The result? Misaligned efforts, wasted time, and missed opportunities for both you and your leadership. The problem isn’t just busy bosses or poor communication — it’s that we often don’t ask the good questions to get inside our manager’s head. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Melody Wilding | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Career Info, Organizational Behavior

It’s important to have the leadership conversation that asks: Are you building the culture we want?

Content: Quotation | Author: Johnathan Nightingale | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Culture, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The people who will screw you over in your organization typically don’t work in your department. It’s not because those people are assholes, but mostly because they don’t have the same frameworks in their head as you have in your head.

Content: Quotation | Author: Melissa Nightingale | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Humans need boundaries as much as they need sleep. Humans need meaning and connection, and they need these things — as working people or consumers of business products or leaders of businesses themselves — as much they need convenience, speed, or scale.

Content: Quotation | Author: Julia Hobsbawm | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Customer Related, Management, Organizational Behavior