Here we are, more than three years into the return to office (RTO) debates. Some leaders are determined to bring their people back into the office, even in the face of employee defiance. (Google “RTO rebellion” for a sense of how this is going.)
Read MoreShared cultural language can be a boon to movements for change—and a barrier to seeing that change happen.
Bumperstickers and banners establish shared credentials, show us who we can trust, tell us who’s on the inside of the movement. But they’re also off-putting to those who don’t share that language, and can antagonize those whom we need to make the change happen.
Read MoreHow hard is it to turn a culture around? Harder than you think.
We like to think of organizations in terms of rational outputs: finance, marketing, manufacturing. But each work stream is made up of individuals responding to internal cultural influences. Each component of an organization is working toward an end, and sometimes changing that end mid-stream is like trying to get a river to run a different direction.
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