Unethical behavior by employees of an organization comes with tremendous costs. Fines, legal expenses, lost employee morale, failed projects and lost production are just some of those costs. How would ...

Every organization has a culture but most accept the one they have as a given. The Markkula Center’s Ethical Culture Self-Assessment Practice offers corporate boards and senior management teams a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The British Standards Institution (BSI) defines organizational resilience as “the ability of ...

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost during return to Earth. A group of distinguished experts was appointed to comprise the Columbia Accident Investigation ...

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 ...

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How a company performs in public often predicts what it'll cost you in private. Here are five ways to stress-test a company’s ...

This qualitative question set may be used to assess a deeper rendering of the current organization culture using open-ended responses for each question, or may be used to further probe quantitative ...

Success requires understanding—and measuring—the potential disconnect between the culture of an organization and the strategy under consideration. Cultures can change, but they can’t change radically ...