Organizational culture and performance reflect leadership at the top. Here’s how a leader’s biology shapes behaviors and performance across an organization.

It’s widely understood that organizational culture is an integral part of a successful business strategy. Yet, many senior leaders admit that their culture is not aligned with their vision or business ...

Why thriving workplace cultures are no longer a leadership nice-to-have. Instead, they are the defining competitive advantage of our time.

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

Frequently we frame cultural change in organizations as a necessary return to normalcy, discipline, and structure. A call to arms of what “right” looks like; it frequently pits new ways of thinking ...

Organizational culture is often described as “the way we do things around here.” But, in reality, culture is more than just behaviors. It’s the deeply embedded beliefs, values, and assumptions that ...

A strong organizational culture can reduce the need for managers. That’s because when a culture is strong, workers have sufficiently internalized goals and values to act autonomously and effectively ...

When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when ...

This story may or may not be true, but Gail Berger, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, finds it useful to explain how ...

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...