Culture Change: A Common Language Accelerates Culture Change
“Talk” is important. What is communicated about the transformation journey, when aligned with a leader’s behavior, systems, and symbols across the organization, helps accelerate change and enables people feeling part of the journey. The way we tell the story of transformation to ourselves and others can have an inspirational power when connected to a purpose and values.
Culture Change: For Culture to Change, Leaders Must Change
Leaders usually understand intellectually the logical connection between their behaviors and the resulting organizational culture. In our work at Axialent, we have never seen leaders rejecting their responsibility in that. What seems harder for leaders to envision from the beginning are the implications for their own personal transformation.
Culture Change: Culture and Leadership are Intimately Connected
At Axialent we define culture as a set of values, norms, beliefs, and assumptions that govern how we work and what we do. Organizational culture and leadership go hand in hand. To understand the culture of an organization, you must examine its leaders and leadership styles.
Culture In Service Of Business Strategy
Culture is the binding element that connects all these aspects; purpose, goals, strategy and successful execution. The right culture can be an incredible asset for actualizing purpose, while the wrong culture can become an insurmountable obstacle.
The Role of Scenario Planning 2.0 in Execution Excellence
Our world is changing faster than ever and with those changes, we need to learn to adapt quickly and intelligently. Scenario planning 2.0 is all about how fast we can read, listen, and integrate new information and adjust our plans quickly. But what exactly is the role of scenario planning 2.0 in execution excellence?
Survivor Syndrome: Planning for the Future in Crisis
People are still struggling with how to adjust to the changes happening in our world today, but we still need to find a way to reconnect with our future, vision, and possibilities. How can we create a future together when there is still so much uncertainty?
Planning On Next Year To Be Different? Better Than Last Year?
Use this list of reflection-provoking, planning questions below to capture your thinking for an increased likelihood of success in 2019.
Are People Undermining Your Strategy (Execution)?
Strategy execution is a central issue for companies and their directors. The challenge is how to integrate the hard and soft sides to achieve an impeccable execution.
Are Your People Undermining Your Strategy (Execution)?
Ask most CEOs what keeps them up at night. They are sure to reply, “Strategy execution!” The effective execution of an approved strategy is probably one of the toughest challenges for any company. In fact, a recent HBR survey found that executional excellence was the number one challenge for CEOs, and 66 – 75 percent of large organizations are ineffective in implementing their strategies.
