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Does Your Organization Design Sabotage Your Culture?

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on February 21, 2024

Imagine a scenario we've seen unfold time and time again: A company that prides itself on being a tech innovation trendsetter embarks on a high-spirited journey to revamp its corporate culture. Leadership is all in, pouring resources into comprehensive workshops, inspirational team-building retreats, and even a vibrant rebranding of company values that now grace every corner of the office and the digital workspace alike. Management feels good. Employees have their healthy, but well-camouflaged doubts.

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Topics: Organization Design, Culture Of Innovation, corporate culture, Organizational Development

'Hurry, Let's Wait' And Other Signs That Your Company Is Not Agile

Posted by Erika Jacobi, Organizational Change and Innovation Consultant, C-Suite Executive Coach/Advisor on December 24, 2019

According to research from a 2017 corporate longevity index, the average life span of S&P 500 companies has dropped from almost 60 years on average in the 1950s to an average now of less than 20 years.

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Topics: Culture Of Innovation, Agile Organization Design, Agile, Enterprise Agility, Adaptive Organization Design

Can Mission Statements Foster a Culture of Innovation?

Posted by Erika Jacobi, Organizational Change and Innovation Consultant, C-Suite Executive Coach/Advisor on October 27, 2019

Who hasn’t seen them — the mission statements and corporate values that are literally presented as the “writings on the wall” of companies around the world? They're statements like, "We are innovative." "We think outside the box." Or sometimes they're even phrased as a command: "Think." "Think differently." "Think outside of the box.”

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Topics: Culture Of Innovation, Agile, corporate culture, Neuro-Sciences

Flights from the Brain: Why People Gain Joy from Agile Collaboration

Posted by Erika Jacobi, Organizational Change and Innovation Consultant, C-Suite Executive Coach/Advisor on May 31, 2018

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I recently had the honor of attending the 175^th Anniversary celebration of Miss Porter’s School, where a high caliber panel of neuroscientists discussed how the mind construes meaning from the arts and ultimately gains joy from the process.

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Topics: Culture Of Innovation, Behavior Change, Agile Organization Design, Agile

Does Your Organization Design Match The Culture You Want?

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on April 26, 2018

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Sure, if you want to forge your culture to become more innovative, dynamic, or customer-oriented, you can work on your values, your people’s behavior, and their mindset.

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Topics: Culture Of Innovation, Agile, corporate culture, Organization Desgin

Time To Move On - Beyond The Culture Of Innovation

Posted by Anthony Mills, Change and Innovation Consultant on November 24, 2015

Culture. Many pages have been written, many words penned, about this very elusive piece of the business enterprise. Culture is to a business what the persona and soul are to an individual. It defines who it is, how it thinks, what it does, and what are and are not the right ways for it to move into the future.

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Topics: Organizational Culture, Innovation, Organizational Culture Change, Culture Of Innovation

What Is A Culture Of Innovation?

Posted by Erika Jacobi, Organizational Change and Innovation Consultant, C-Suite Executive Coach/Advisor on November 16, 2015

Everybody wants it, nobody seems to have it: A culture of innovation. But what exactly do we mean when we call for a culture of innovation? After all, how can we create a desired culture, if we don’t know exactly what it looks like?

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Topics: Organizational Culture, Innovation, Organizational Culture Change, Culture Of Innovation