3 mistakes companies make when 'managing' their business culture
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Stress-related illness, employee disengagement, ethical breaches signal that the business culture is not being managed. What if we used Nature's principles to adapt business cultures for rapid change?TRANSCRIPT
3 Mistakes Companies MakeWhen Changing the Business Culture
What do we mean by culture?The temptations..... The signals......
Mistake #1: Failing to Manage the Corporate Culture
Gain insight: Bring the invisible to the surface....
Patterns reveal beliefs: Ask why? to uncover the belief.
eg. “Employees are replaceable.”
Mistake #2: Trying to Change Behaviours
Control - Direct - Tell - SellBlock Innovation - Ethical Breaches - Blame Game
Replace control with
support
TweetAway: #StoosConnect
The Role of Manager is Changing- Release control; gain personal
fulfillment and performance power Networked World
Mistake #3: Underestimating the Power of the Human Spirit:
Contribute Creativity
Need for Radical Innovation - Resilience: water, energy, food,
Nature
A Higher Level of Leadership from Business
Learn from 3.8BY Experience
Meet the LAMPindex.com - Know Part of Living System
Care for Nature & People: Embedded in Culture
Higher calling: To Serve
Driven by value creation; not$
Joseph/Jay Bragdon: Profit for Life
High Performance Networks - Decentralized DM
Shared goal: contribute, sense of belonging, care & compassion.
Attributes of a Living System
Frugal with Resources - Financially secure; Self-
organizing
Attributes of Living System
TweetAway:#StoosConnect
Companies that operate by Nature’s principles are highly conscious:
intuitively; intellectually
Novo Nordisk - stewardship management model
Ecological consciousness, systemic & financial health
Notice where the mind drifts to... which results go with a business whose primary purpose it to make a
profit?
Canon “offers greater value through less resources in life cycle”
NucorModel of decentralization and deep networking
#StoosConnect: The same
principles Nature uses to keep a
complex system stable, we can
use to dynamically
adapt business cultures.
Self-organizing
1. Clearing barriers to collaboration/innovation;
2. Creating a high performance workplace;
3. Achieving personal fulfillment
Employees care about your company; they know what is
in the way
Deeply NetworkedLeadership Skills for Complexity+ Higher
Consciousness + Intuition=
Trust = High Performance
What are we truly capable of when....
we replace force and struggle to survive with intelligence and creativity?
#StoosConnect: Power of the Human Spirit + Higher Purpose+ Self-Organizing Networks=Phenomenal Performance
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Using Nature’s Principles to Create Resilience
- An idea worthy of Collaboration
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