Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Murphy covers leadership, hiring and employee engagement. Change management is notoriously difficult. It's so hard, in fact, ...

When you treat culture like infrastructure, something engineered and strengthened over time, you design for change.

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...

In 2023, I delivered a session for Chicktech’s Annual Conference on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion. I adopted that talk into an overview on how to drive cultural change in your ...

Amid demand for change is a surge in hiring for chief transformation officers. This expert suggests deeper foundational work is needed.

A strong organizational culture can reduce the need for managers. That’s because when a culture is strong, workers have sufficiently internalized goals and values to act autonomously and effectively ...

Frequently we frame cultural change in organizations as a necessary return to normalcy, discipline, and structure. A call to arms of what “right” looks like; it frequently pits new ways of thinking ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

Leaders often think that organizational change requires a series of all-hands meetings, announcing a new set of company values, often accompanied by a pizza party or even a series of team-building ...

This story may or may not be true, but Gail Berger, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, finds it useful to explain how ...

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