The OC Equation™– A Culture of Gratitude

This time of year, it’s not uncommon for leaders to be focused on setting goals and objectives and creating action plans to get results that create their organization’s competitive advantage. Budgets have been approved, capital expenditures are in process, employee...
Living Your OC through the Ebola Crisis.

Living Your OC through the Ebola Crisis.

Leveraging your Organizational Culture (OC) for a competitive advantage takes intentional and consistent application of The OC Equation™ (Values + Philosophies x Actions = OC). In other words, consistently living your values and philosophies through your actions....

Monkeys, Bananas, Structure and OC – Oh My!

Organizational structure isn’t something most leaders lay awake at night thinking about, but without the right structure to support your OC (Organizational Culture) and your business strategy, you leave profits on the table. So, what does it mean to organize?...
The First Step to Competitive Advantage: Assessing Your OC

The First Step to Competitive Advantage: Assessing Your OC

Assessing and Defining your OC What’s your OC (organizational culture)? Do your employees, leaders, customers and others define it the same way? You can’t begin to leverage your OC until you actually know what it is, what you want it to be and how to fill any gaps....
Organizational Culture (OC) – The Big WHY?

Organizational Culture (OC) – The Big WHY?

Recently one of my readers posed the following: “To be perfectly honest, I am ambivalent about this subject because I feel that most HR people concentrate far too much of their time and effort just talking, and talking, and talking some more about this subject, even...