Last week, Dustin Schneider and Bradford Blevins attended the 2014 Organizational Development Network Conference in Philadelphia. Every year at these conferences, we walk away with notebooks full of new ideas for our clients and the way we can help them build a sustainable organizational culture that stands the test of time. There were so many inspiring […]
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gothamCulture’s Samantha Goldman came to us with some incredible organizational experience under her belt: campaign work. Studying employee engagement through that lens became her thesis at The New School and is the basis for her first ever LinkedIn post (congrats Samantha!). Here’s an excerpt: Political campaign organizations are rarely discussed alongside broader issues of management,
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With the rapid adoption of technology into today’s organizational culture, data collection and analysis is becoming a common component of the way we do business. However, this new reliance on data brings a new host of challenges, including how to combine and share this information across the organization in order to get as much value
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Starbucks has gained a lot of attention in the wake of their recent dress code policy changes, allowing their employees to wear black denim, colored ties, and allowing visible tattoos. This may seem like a small change, but in the context of recent controversy over this very issue, it made us wonder what the deeper
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What does a conference about digital innovation have to do with organizational culture? A lot, it turns out. We attended this year’s Seattle Interactive Conference with two purposes in mind. First; get more familiar with the big thinkers in Seattle, gothamCulture’s second base of operations. Second; to understand the emerging business models and organizational issues on
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In Implementing Change, Part 1: With More Predictability Than the Weather, I discussed how reflecting on your own reactions to feeling out of control in relation to the weather is helpful in gaining empathy towards employees who often feel like the changes in their organization are as unpredictable as the weather. As humans, we respond to
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If you’re like me in that you wish every day was summer, but you happen to live in a place that too soon will be covered with snow, you might be feeling some anticipatory blues. Yes, there are still many months (hopefully) until we need to pull out our hats and gloves (see my previous
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In my previous post, I talked about the status of Big Data. In this post, I’d like to discuss some of the ethical issues we’re facing in the data world. We are at an interesting crossroads between data and culture. Today, we have the ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data (much of
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I’m definitely not the first person to say this, but the term “Big Data” is significantly overused. In fact, Big Data has become a catch-all phrase for anything related to data analysis, (regardless of whether it actually involves data sources commonly associated with Big Data). In some ways, a lot of people probably think they
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Given what I’m about to write, this blog should be a hero story about a frustrated exec who uses storytelling to transform disinterested employees into faithful followers…. Maybe next time. For now, what I will say is that THE common thread we’re hearing across clients and industries is an interest in learning to tell stories.
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