Dr. Brad Cousins designs strategy and coaches transformational change as CEO/Founder of Ingage Human Capital Strategies and a Vistage Chair. In the strategy and transformation work I do, we envision ...

The term "culture" is often brandished as a Band-Aid for a company's problems. If there's a downturn in workplace morale, it must be an issue with culture; if there's an uptick in performance, it's ...

This cookie exercise, first shown to me by leadership consultant Margaret Wheatley at a workshop, is an excellent (and delectable) demonstration of the emergent properties of a system: The whole has ...

Organizational culture is a remarkable competitive advantage. McKinsey & Company, for example, has found that top quartile cultures outperform median cultures by 60% — and bottom quartile cultures by ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some respects, then, it is somewhat ironic that, before the pandemic, people said they were increasingly unhappy with their organizational cultures. In our 2018 global culture survey, people told ...

Design thinking can drive curiosity, collaboration across disciplines, and radical risk-taking—all to develop solutions that solve real-world problems. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...