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No Enterprise Will Ever Reach Its Full Potential… |
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This is obviously a true statement. No matter how good one’s organizational culture is it can always be improved. One of those organizations, Marion Labs (now a part of the $30 billion multinational Sanofi Aventis) however, approached the very pinnacle of cultural performance. The year that we sold Marion Labs to Dow Chemical, Marion recorded the highest sales and the highest earnings per associate, on the New York Stock Exchange. In my corporate career and since I retired to speak and consult, it has become very apparent that no enterprise will ever even approach its full potential until every leader at every level is an effective organizational cultural leader. Therefore, leaders at the top of enterprises should understand that while great cultures are often started from the top, the actual work of cultural leadership must take place in all of the subcultures of the enterprise. Really smart executives realize this and work to make certain that every leader receives the training, tools and incentives to build very powerful subcultures of the overall enterprise. I believe these subcultural leaders need to understand the critical elements of organizational culture and how to make appropriate decisions and take knowledgeable actions to continually enhance their own workplace cultures.
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