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Whenever I look at companies, (I’m in the business of building better companies for the future), I like to look at their values. Values are a key component of culture. And culture is one of the 5 elements of organizational architecture. So whether you are designing a business or trying to build a high-performance culture, …
I’m going to share what I’ve learned about creating a digital culture, based on what I’ve seen from companies around the world. You can think of culture as the shared values, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that characterize and guide a company. My favorite explanation of culture is from The First 90 Days, where the author …
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly, rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.” — Bill Gates As leaders are learning how to be more Agile and how to improve agility in their organizations, they look to User Stories. Leaders are discovering how User Stories are a powerful way to prioritize and focus. The power …
“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” – Peter Drucker So many people start with solutions, and then wonder where the customers are. It’s the proverbial, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The truth is, if all you have is a hammer, then get better at …
One of the things I do, as a patterns and practices kind of guy, is research and share success patterns. One of my more interesting bodies of work is my set of patterns and practices for successful executive thinking. A while back, I interviewed several Microsoft executives to get their take on how to think …
