“What is a good business culture?” is a question that many CEOs continue to struggle with. In this article, EY provides great insight into the problem and why it requires immediate attention. You would be hard-pressed to find a leader today who is unaware that culture matters. Yet here we are, almost two decades after […]
Category Archives: Organisational culture
A leader’s guide to shaping company culture
Culture is learned behaviour. Our organisational cultures are created through the actions we take – not the other way around. In this article, EY talks us through what this means. By EY Successful corporate cultures are organic: They evolve in response to the organization’s needs and keep employees working together with a shared sense of […]
What do the best employers do differently
Three years of research to provide us with insights into why some employers are better than others – that’s worth a longform read! Published in the Harvard Business Review, 12 December 2019 What makes a company culture great? To explore this question, my colleague, Bill Baker and I spent the last three years researching the […]
What it really means to be a strategic thinker
Strategic thinking feels like a vague, ungraspable buzzword business-types throw out to sound important. The truth: it’s literally child’s play. Dorie Clark explains in her LinkedIn Learning course, Strategic Thinking. When we are young, we question everything. Our favorite word when we are 2-years-old – why. And then, society smashes that out of us. “We spend a lot of our […]
How unconscious bias shapes your thinking (and what you can do about it)
What was your first thought when you saw the feature image for this article – be open and honest about the specific thoughts that went through your mind. Most Australians believe in values such as fairness and equality – but these can be harder to act on than you would think. All applicants for permanent visas […]