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golden handcuffs

Unshackling Silicon Valley From Its Golden Handcuffs

Silicon Valley is known for its buzzwords around corporate culture, having adopted (or been labeled with) such terms as “bro culture”, “work hard/play hard culture” and “culture of failure.” Startups that operate at breakneck speed, encouraging all-night hackathons and weekend work retreats, are often held up as shining examples for aspiring young entrepreneurs to follow

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collective impact

Shifting Organizational Culture To Enable Collective Impact

By Chris Cancialosi & Stan Schneider In 2011, the Foundation Strategy Group (FSG) released a seminal article by John Kania and Mark Kramer, which stimulated a much-needed resurgence of social reform initiatives that follow the collective impact paradigm. The concept of collective impact (CI) asserts that multiple, diverse agencies and groups must work together – not

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performance evaluations

3 Things to Know Before Eliminating Performance Evaluations

The HR scene has been up in arms recently as several large firms; including Deloitte, Accenture and GE have made the decision to eliminate their traditional performance evaluation processes. But before you go storming the gates of your CEO’s office with torches and pitchforks demanding that your organization follow in their footsteps, you may want

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job crafting

Job Crafting: Empowering Employees to Boost Engagement

When thinking about ways to encourage employee engagement, many leaders rely on costly interventions, activities, and incentives in an attempt to force engagement through participation. Unfortunately, such approaches can be not only expensive, but also uninspiring and ineffective. However well intentioned, employees likely won’t buy into these initiatives unless they are already actively engaged in

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gothamCulture Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies

New York, NY, Aug. 12, 2015 / — gothamCulture, an organizational development consultancy based in New York City announced today that Inc. magazine has named it one of the Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the country. This is the first year that gothamCulture has been recognized for growth by Inc. and is the first

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