Why Company Culture

Business Culture is on average eight times more influential on performance results than strategy! In tougher times the influence increases. Do your leaders know how to think culturally? Plan their culture? Inspire the culture to align with strategy?

Company culture is now accepted as being critical to business performance. As research has shown, culture is on average eight times more influential than strategy in determining business performance outcomes. In fact company culture is so impactful that when it becomes misaligned with business strategy, culture performs just as your toughest competitor. It effects quality, reputation, speed, customer focus, productivity and value! When culture is misaligned with the business, the results can be catastrophic.

Consider the fact that it was not the competitors of Enron, Refco, Worldcom and Arthur Anderson's that put them out of business. It was their own culture. In tougher economic times it has become all the more urgent for leaders in today's organizations to understand and master workplace culture. Consider the global engagement surveys of staff satisfaction, on average indicate that only 20% of staff are engaged.

Yet many leaders and managers receive training and development in such areas such as strategic planning, risk management, quality assurance, marketing, and budgeting, few if any, have ever been taught how to think culturally and act accordingly.

Is your organization at risk from a misaligned culture ? Do you wish to improve the engagement of your people? This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it now for a complementary initial discussion on your situation and aspirations for your workplace culture.

Michael has worked in and studied businesses from an anthropological perspective for over 20 years. Anthropology shows that Tribes are the most successful and enduring social model for humans. Michael has developed an approach that demystifies workplace culture and has designed products and services that resources you and your people to leverage your workplace culture to;

• Lift personal and group performance
• Increase engagement
• Align to and deliver business strategies
• Deliver customer and employee brand propositions
• Recruit & keep top talent
• Assess the cultural fit of business mergers with speed and simplicity

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