Blogs Posts on "Corporate Culture"
Brand as Organanization: the parent aspect by FireBrand Creative branding blog on Sep 19, 2009I have been re-reading David Aaker’s “Building Strong Brands” and this like alot of posts in the coming weeks is inspired by the book. Aaker spells out the 4 aspects of brand identity: 1)brand as product, 2) brand as organization, 3...
Identify companies culture before you take the job by The Pathfinder on Aug 14, 2009Before the interview Ask your network: Use LinkedIn, Jigsaw, and other networking tools to query your network and determine if anyone has worked at the company or knows someone who does who you can audit about the culture. Invite current employees o...
Cultural Fit: Considerations Before Interviewing by ART-CM: The Art of Creative Management on Aug 5, 2009Something feels broken in our current recruiting system. Research tells us that firm success depends upon having the "right" workforce, emphasizing the alignment of corporate cultural values between organizations and their employees. However, compani...
Competitive Advantage: Small Firm Flexibility vs. Big Firm Sustainability by ART-CM: The Art of Creative Management on Jul 28, 2009In unstable environments, there is no sustainable competitive advantage, only multiple temporary competitive advantages. If this is true, small-to-mid-sized firms may be the big earners of our time.
Radical Innovation: The Prodigal Mandate by ART-CM: The Art of Creative Management on Jul 20, 2009A 2007 McKinsey Global Survey revealed that 70 percent of corporate leaders call innovation one of their top three priorities. They believe that breakthrough (or radical) innovation will have the greatest affect on corporate performance. The report...
Business: changing a corporate culture, buses and monkeys by Scholars & Rogues on Jul 1, 2009Business stuff two days in a row. How about that? So this morning’s lecture explains why fixing a broken corporate culture has something to do with angry, disoriented monkeys driving a bus on the sidewalk. Sorta.
Business: Trapped in meeting hell? Three things to think about by Scholars & Rogues on Jun 30, 2009Hate meetings? Who doesn’t? If you’ve snooped around at all, you know that there are lots and lots of smart people with good advice on how to run effective meetings, but you may be thinking that none of those suggestions is really helping...
Final Blog in Alum Series: Earning Interest May Earn Donations? by Career Growing Pains: Some Grow UP and Some Grow Old on May 28, 2009My nephew called to tell me about his new car and I shared my first car experience at 16: I told him that during the first night I kept looking out the window to verify that it was real. He laughed and admitted that he had done the same thing. When w...
Final Blog in Alum Series: Earning Interest May Earn Donations? by Painfully Employed: They got it bad and that aint good on May 28, 2009My nephew called to tell me about his new car and I shared my first car experience at 16: I told him that during the first night I kept looking out the window to verify that it was real. He laughed and admitted that he had done the same thing. When w...
From Career Train Wreck To Church Envelopes, and Back Again to Alums by Career Growing Pains: Some Grow UP and Some Grow Old on Apr 22, 2009My encounter with church envelopes taught me that in a career train wreck every light in the tunnel is not a way out. At the time, my job was a train wreck pile-up of unchallenging responsibilities coupled with bickering, backstabbing, and bitter co...
