I was surprised when the cup of coffee I bought the other morning was handed to me in a styrofoam cup. A few months back, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced legislation that would ban all styrofoam containers from the city’s restaurants. The measure still sits in debate, hence my Saturday morning cup […]
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First published in Full Start, March 23, 2014 People tend to automatically think of leaders as extroverts. After all, an outgoing nature, openness, and inherent sociability are all basic requirements to being a leader, right? Not necessarily. Research shows that 4 out of 10 top corporate executives are introverts — and for good reason. Introverted
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What does a flying fish tell us about corporate culture? At design consultancy, IDEO, the answer is – quite a bit. When IDEO’s chief creative officer, Paul Bennett, hoisted an Icelandic lamp made from a lacquered, deboned cod above his desk in IDEO’s office space, it was more than a quirky design decision. The lamp
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Over the years, I’ve had countless opportunities to speak with people from all walks of life – children, adults, clients, colleagues, blue collar, white collar – it’s spanned the gamut. One unifying phenomenon I’ve noticed often is that when people speak, they tend to spend a majority of their time discussing what’s happened to them
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First published in Fast Company, March 6, 2014. We are excited to share Chris’s inaugural Fast Company post. Here’s a quick snippet: “Culture is a relentless driver of employee behavior. Left to its own devices, it can potentially limit an organization. But if leaders work to define it, assess it, and understand it, culture can
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gothamCulture LLC and The Bradford Management Group, Inc (TBMG) are pleased to announce that they have signed a merger agreement. “We are thrilled to join forces with TBMG. Their approach and unique service offerings in strategy development and process improvement will help to provide more robust solutions to our clients” said Brian Glaser, Managing Partner
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We hear it all the time, the continuous chatter of experts reiterating the same old talking points about what organizations need to do to retain and engage a younger workforce. All this talk got me thinking. What if we got it all wrong? What if we are being held captive by our own beliefs and
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At gothamCulture we talk about culture all the time. Like, all the time. This stems from our belief that at the center of an engaged workforce and an organizations’ performance, whether you define that as a healthy bottom line or degree of social impact, lies its culture. Culture reveals itself in many ways, from the
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There’s a lot of talk these days about creating a “safety culture,” but, as Chris Cancialosi writes in his latest LinkedIn post, it’s better to develop a high-performance organization (and the safety will follow). A quote: “Companies that really want to reduce the amount of risky operational behavior must realize that the culture they create
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A recent Google search titled “merger and acquisition failure reasons” resulted in an estimated 242,000 hits. There is a mix of academic research, specific industry experts and consultants within the first fifty postings, with what appears to be “violent agreement” that somewhere between 50% and 75% of M&A’s are judged to be failures. Lack of
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