Culture Change

A Perspective on Culture and Brand Japan, post-tsunami
Aubrey Daniels' Blog
...a culture can be shaped by its experience with major events and how the people of that culture come together collectively to address challenges. There is no better example of this than Japan...


An Executive View: Dennis Sadlowski, Former CEO of Siemens Energy & Automation, Discusses Keys to a Sustained, Positive Culture
PMeZine
Dennis Sadlowski, the former president and chief executive officer of Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., began his career with General Electric. At GE he held management positions over a period of ten years before moving to Thomas and Betts,...


The Science of Success: Creating Great Places to Work
PMeZine
In times like these, when economic instability, changing conditions of the workplace, and uncertainty reign, some companies are able to create conditions that promote loyalty, dedication and on-target performance...


Young Entrepreneurs Get It
Aubrey Daniels Blog
When you explain the science of behavior to this audience, they get positive reinforcement! The reason for the exclamation point is that I have spoken to thousands of more seasoned managers who take a long time to get it-and some never really understand the importance and value this technology brings to their businesses... 


Systems Thinking and Management Behavior
Performance Management Magazine
Does your company have nagging problems that never seem to go away? Does your organization remind you of the movie Ground Hog Day, repeatedly downsizing, reorganizing, and re-engineering, and never quite getting it right? Once this situation is recognized how does an organization work its way out of such predicaments...


Gilding the Yellow Brick Road
Performance Management Magazine
When one firm acquires another, cultural and operational differences are probable.  But when a multinational firm with offices in 34 countries acquires a prestigious national organization headquartered in America’s heartland, cultural differences are inevitable.


A Culture of Success at M&T
Case Study
Try convincing a group of bank executives that it’s time for a culture change when the present culture has been reinforced by over 100 years of extraordinary success. Such was the challenge last year for a team of performance specialists who were called to help one of the 20th largest banks in America shift into a new way of doing business.