Begin your organizational culture transformation with insight from Denison.

Creating an Innovation Ecosystem: Lessons from Haier

We studied Haier’s innovation systems and network of micro-enterprises to identify cultural characteristics that were linked to success.

Coaching in Context

We explored methods of integrating leadership and organizational development activities so that they are complementary.

Work-Life Balance in the Digital Workplace

We researched best practices for organizations and individuals to prioritize their ever-evolving work demands in this new virtual environment.

Being Consistent About Improvement: 3 Ways to Better Support Employees During the Covid-19 Crisis. 

These three areas of focus can help organizations strive for improvement and provide their employees with the support that they need.

Listening to the Voice of Your People: Areas for Action in Response to Covid-19

We identified five major themes for action to serve as an example for how organizations can respond to Covid-19.

Virtual Teamwork During the Covid-19 Crisis

Organizations across the globe have been forced to change the way they operate, especially when it comes to virtual coordination, communication, and teamwork.

Is the ‘Pulse’ Survey Dead?

Pulse and annual surveys are different and meet different needs. The two tools used together have the potential to create a culture that delivers sustainable performance and engage employees to answer burning questions in real time.

Consistency in the Midst of Uncertainty

Denison Consulting took a deep dive into the data captured through their recent Resilience Campaign.

How Are Your People Responding to the Pandemic?

As the world of work has been disrupted like never before, many of our colleagues have stepped forward to do research on how companies are adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

MANAGING TELEWORK IN THE AGE OF COVID-19

A viral pandemic forces us to consider how organizational culture can facilitate telework, and how telework can nudge culture, all while employees are enabled to take care of themselves and their loved ones.

Culture & Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy

Perhaps there is no business situation that epitomizes the saying that “culture eats strategy” more than mergers and acquisitions.

What is Missing In Leadership Development?

As the awareness of the impact of culture has grown, so too has the recognition that leaders are not just influential or even responsible for culture—today they are accountable for culture.

Leadership Eats Culture

How does that change our perspective on the relationship between leadership, culture, and strategy?

Developing Culture in the New ‘Gig Economy’.

What can the University of Michigan’s Cardiology Fellowship training program teach companies like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb? A lot, as it turns out!

Should Corporate Culture Be Regulated in the Financial Services Industry?

Are financial scandals about individual bad apples, or a bad “orchard”—the system that produced the bad apples?

What do emotions have to do with decision making?

We’ve all heard that when it comes to decision making, we should check our emotions at the door. But is this a realistic strategy?

Trust and Leadership

The focus on building a “high performance culture” is increasing at many companies, but the need for building trust through collective leadership is equally important.

Talent Management Meets Culture Management

The Culture of Builders

For this part-2 article, I sat down with three of the Fellows who have been involved in the culture initiative from the beginning to better understand how they got involved and what the work has meant to them.

Coaching & the Culture-Fit Model

You have been asked to coach a leader who epitomizes integrity and commitment, but whose blind spots and lack of skills are hurting rather than advancing his organization’s goals.

Organizational Culture & Employee Engagement: What’s the Relationship?

As a leader, which is more important to you? That your organization is performing the way it needs to in order to meet your business objectives? Or that your employees are well engaged in their jobs?

Connecting organizational culture with the talent management lifecycle

The process of acquiring, retaining, and growing talent occupies a key place in corporate strategy, and yet often this process is disconnected…

Aligning Culture & Strategy

Fundamentally realigning your culture to support a transformational strategy shift is perhaps one of the most stretching and misunderstood scenarios for leadership teams to address.

Lessons for Leaders, Volume 1

The top 5 corporate culture stories of 2015.

Boundaries or Barriers?

In our effort to organize businesses and institutions, we create boundaries that distinguish groups by functions, locations, business units, divisions, and levels.

Lessons for Leaders, Volume 2

As a part of our work on safety culture in the food industry, we have been intrigued this past year to watch the incredible case of the Peanut Corporation of America continue to unfold.

Culture Change is a Team Game

Anyone working in this space knows that the success or failure of real culture change starts and stops with the senior-most leaders of the organization.

High Performance Culture

Millions of people across the globe spend their hard-earned money seeking a simple solution to things that in our hearts and minds, we know are not easy to do.

Values with Teeth

A number of years back, Patrick Lencioni wrote, “Make your values mean something.” His Harvard Business Review article (HBR) is a must-read.

Three Development Principles to Live By,

A few of the principles that OD professionals live by and the challenges they present.