“I have participated as a leader in many organizations where the leadership culture was just mean - ugly, where competitiveness, and destructive relationships stymied progress. There should be healthy tension and candid debate, but leadership teams need to practice communication, relationship building, emotional intelligence, and be aligned around common purpose to achieve organizational success. Senior leaders, chief executive officers, others need to ensure they are fostering the right environment for leadership otherwise all of that ugliness will trickle through the organization.” MeanPurposeCultureCommonLeaderEnvironmentProgressTeamAchieveBuildingEmotionalCommunicationHealthyUglyDebateTensionSeniorUglinessCompetitivenessOrganizational Author:James Merlino
“Talking about improving the culture, I prefer to say "develop" or "evolve" rather than "change". If I walk into a room and say: "we are here to change the organization," it sends shock waves through the group. If I say: "your success to date has come from who you are, to be successful in the future, we need to get to X, let's talk about how we evolve the organization to that point," that is a very different statement. Successful organizational "change" must come from the people. So, recruit them with common purpose, recognize that it will take time, and plow forward.” PeopleDifferentPurposeCultureCommonSuccessfulWho You AreWaveEvolveBeing SuccessfulTake TimeOrganizational Author:James Merlino