Tag: company culture
The Progression of Company Culture Within an Organization
What does every single business ever created have in common? The answer is they all started out as an idea; one person’s fantasy as to how their vision can make a difference to the world. From the minute an organization is born, a company culture is installed within it. For those start ups that cannot [...]
Team Building is Not an Extracurricular Activity: How to Make Company Culture a Priority from Day One
Culture is a very real and meaningful part of a company that determines how team members feel about the business, the product, and one another. But building a strong company culture is also an opportunity to motivate the team by making everyone feel like they’re working toward a common goal. At my company, culture has [...]
Tips for Defining Company Culture
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines culture as “the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties, especially by education,” which is an incredibly boring statement. So, I kept reading, seeing as how there were multiple definitions, and I found this: “The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.” Ah, [...]
Creating the Right Office Culture to Foster Innovation
If you’ve ever wondered why the buzzword “innovation” is thrown around so often, it’s because its two biggest results – added value and the change that drives it – are so crucial to business growth. Innovation is the marshalling of resources to create breakthrough value; this process introduces value-driven change into relatively stable systems. Without [...]
Finding Similar Personalities for Your Company
Like Lucy and Ricky, peanut butter and jelly, and Bert and Ernie, some things just go together – and it’s the same with business. The most successful companies are those with employees who “fit together” – a fit that includes an elusive blend of culture, personalities, and passion for the business. When recruiting, it’s important [...]
An MBA Caliber Education Outside of the Classroom: Building Good Company Culture
In the last decade, the relative importance of company culture has shot up in value, due to findings that demonstrate that employee satisfaction leads to increased job performance. Not only do customer relations boom with increased morale, but the need for supervision decreases, which allows leadership to focus on making business decisions rather than on [...]
The Secrets of Creating a Powerful Company Culture
I hate to break it to you, but here’s the scoop: Just about any business advantage that you pride yourself on can be copied by a competitor. The only question is when your competitors are going to get around to it. The culture of your company is the exception to this rule. Strong company cultures [...]
Ridiculous Ways to Improve Your Company Culture
What do Fox’s The New Girl and professional wrestling have in common? This isn’t a trick question – they have absolutely nothing in common, except that they’ve both recently influenced ways that I have improved my company’s culture. This may sound a little ridiculous, but it makes more sense than it would appear on the [...]
Why Our Company Culture is Like High School
Remember in high school when you thought, “I’m never going to use anything I learn here in the real world?” You – and I – were wrong. I use things I learned in high school every single day at work; it’s not necessarily insight I gained in textbooks, but what I absorbed from the culture [...]
