Too often managers and leaders are waiting for their bosses to take the lead in organizational culture change.  It seems that the majority of leaders have come to believe that great organizational culture has to start at the very top of the organization.  In all of my years doing organizational culture training, I have seen many, many examples of great organizational cultures deep within an otherwise mediocre to even poor overall corporate culture.

You see, every leader has more than enough latitude and plenty of ready resources to dramatically improve his or her organizational culture; as long as that organization and the enterprise as a whole is viable (deserves to exist). In fact, as a corporate keynote speaker, I have made a career of stripping away the excuse often posed by leaders, ‘I can’t fix my culture until my boss fixes his’.

As a matter of fact great leaders of subculture deep within an enterprise often rise to the top of an organization’s leadership ladder because of his or her ability to build high performance workplace cultures in spite of the quality of those organizations around the.