4 Steps to Deciphering Your Firm’s Culture

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Joel Harris Head

“You can observe a lot if you just watch.” ~Yogi Berra Culture gets blamed for a lot of things. Half of all merger failures, say the experts, are caused by cultural incompatibility. If business strategy is not aligned with corporate culture, corporate anthropologists expound, the strategy will lose – every time. Corporate culture has clearly [...]

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3 Ways to Kill Your Employees

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Joel Harris Head

How many ways, leaders? How many ways? How many ways can a leader go through the day and put a dagger in the heart of their employees? How many ways can a leader suck the very life out of their team members? How many ways can a leader snuff the life out of the esprit de corp [...]

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Steps to Being a Leadership Storyteller

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Joel Harris Head

How do leaders influence people to adopt their point of view?  They make change happen by adopting the language of leaders. Recent political events provide an important clue. Facts, Figures, and Imagination In the last U.S. Presidential contest, it appeared that Hillary Clinton was destined to become the Democratic Party nominee. She had name recognition, had [...]

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