Making Culture Pay: The Hard Side of Culture?

Many people have come to believe that workplace culture is just a lot of philosophy and conjecture about the importance of workplace culture. In my 30+ years of leadership, I have been called on more than a dozen times to take over broken organizations with only ten associates to divisions with over 3,000 people. The ultimate success of these organizations has proven that great organizations and their bottom-line performance really is about building and sustaining high performance workplace cultures.

Not only have we been able to determine the factors that must be in place for organizations to reach their full potential, we can even measure the strengths and weaknesses of any organizational culture. With that insight we can quickly lay out a strategy to dramatically improve any organization that has a viable product or reason for being.

I have made a career stripping away the excuse that ‘I can’t fix my culture until my boss fixes his’. That is just an excuse. Every leader has more than enough latitude and plenty of resources to dramatically improve his or her organization if they have the knowledge and desire to do so.