LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Any real workplace transformation will fall flat unless you include plans to shift mindsets, beliefs, and business practices — the basis for successful culture change. An adaptable organizational culture can be defined as one that is open and ready to shift ways of working, thinking, and behaving to succeed and thrive.

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Walk Me

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s explore the differences to help you understand how to use each to support a successful organizational culture change that sticks. For instance, “How many units do we produce per hour” or “How many sales calls do we complete weekly.” These apply to outcomes that you can directly measure numerically.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The best leaders ask, “Who do we need to be (culture) in order to achieve what we’re trying to do (strategic goals)?” ” But there’s one barrier that holds many organizations back from genuine and successful culture change: ownership. That’s why culture change has to be a collaborative project.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Culture change is a bear. The conventional wisdom is that it takes years to change a culture, defined as the assumed beliefs and norms that govern “the way we do things around here.” And few organizations explicitly use culture as a way to drive business performance, or even believe it could make sense to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Company culture changes very slowly, so efforts to do an about-face are inevitably a waste of time and energy: Organizations either declare victory prematurely or, in frustration, abandon the attempt. You’re better off thinking of your cultural situation as an underpinning you’ll have to work with over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

The expected benefits included improved working capital, an uplift in sales, reduced buying volumes, and a reduction in the backroom inventory at each store. A significant cultural change was also going to be needed, especially around information sharing and cross-cultural work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Operating profits are at unprecedented levels, organic sales growth is north of 25% and our asset productivity, through the implementation of lean processes, has shot up. Our e-commerce business accounts for roughly one-third of total net sales and it is growing at over an 80% clip. Today, Ashley Stewart is thriving.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

For new growth areas that now make up 47% of sales, it moved into industrial solutions and digital services, creating systems such as internet-connected elevators. They Use Culture Change to Drive Engagement. Microsoft is a case in point.

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