Organizational Culture
Published on Nov 21, 2015
Selected quotes on organizational culture.
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“Every company has a culture. It may not be working for you, but one does exist. It comes from within and it takes time to create.”
– Barbara Anderson, Director of Culture & Education, The Container Store
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“Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game.”
- Lou Gerstner, former CEO, IBM
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“Everything [in our strategy] our competitors could copy tomorrow. But they can’t copy the culture - and they know it.”
- Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines
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“The bottom line for leaders is that if they do not become conscious of the cultures in which they are embedded, those cultures will manage them. Cultural understanding is desirable for all of us, but it is essential to leaders if they are to lead.”
- Edgar Schein
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“When a company truly cares about its people, nurtures the culture, defines the purpose, creates a great environment and offers challenging work, great things happen. Striving to be a great place to work is not easy, but it’s definitely worth it.”
– Brian Kristofek, CEO Upshot
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“Few things are more critical to leadership success than building a healthy, aligned culture. Great corporate cultures are intentional – they are built by design.”
– Mike Myatt
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“The shared set of assumptions of a group is a powerful force. One needs to understand what the assumptions are, in order to predict how the group will act.”
- Sue Annis Hammond
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“Although cultivating a great culture demands a lot of emotional investment, leadership wisdom, and a genuine care for people, it is a financially low-cost investment with a high economic return. This is why great leaders pay attention to it. An authentic culture, at the very soul of a business, is something competitors cannot imitate.
– David Lapin
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“Defining - and enforcing - your company’s culture may be your most important job.”
- Norm Brodsky
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"Your real job is to get results and to do it in a way that makes your organization a great place to work – a place where people enjoy coming to work, instead of just taking orders and hitting this month’s numbers.”
- Andy Pearson, former CEO of PepsiCo
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“Work should be and can be productive and rewarding, meaningful and maturing, enriching and fulfilling, healing and joyful. Work is one of our greatest privileges.”
- Max DePree
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“Culture is not fluff. Culture is not soft. Culture is not a nice-to-have option. A strong and purposeful culture is a significant factor in an organization’s performance and can tie directly to positive bottom-line results.”
- BlessingWhite eNews
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“Culture must be fought for on a daily basis, and it must continue to evolve in order to become better, stronger, and healthier. If you lose the culture battle you’ll lose the talent battle, the brand battle, and eventually the sustainability battle.”
– Mike Myatt
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“Organizational culture is possibly the most critical factor determining an organization’s capacity, effectiveness, and longevity.”
- Tamara J. Woodbury
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“The truly great places to work aren’t great because of their perks and benefits, but because of their organizational cultures and policies that promote meaningful work and a nurturing, supportive workplace.
- Neal Chalofsky
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“A company’s practices and strategies should change continually; its core ideology (it’s values and purpose) should not. Core ideology defines a company’s timeless character. It’s the glue that holds the enterprise together. You discover core ideology by looking inside. It has to be authentic.
You can’t fake it.”
- Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
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“Like a garden, organizational culture develops whether or not you design it. If you ignore it, it continues to grow, just not necessarily in the ways you might have hoped.”
– David Lapin
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“The leader’s job is to speak for the well-being of the institution all the time and engage in authentic contracts with people about what we’re here for, which is to build a great institution. Leaders ask, ‘What are the conversations we need to have that serve the interest of the business and also make it a place where people care and are treated well?’”
- Peter Block
“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”
- Peter Drucker
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“We basically do not know what the world of tomorrow will really be like except that it will be different. That means that organizations and their leaders will have to become perpetual learners.”
- Edgar Schein
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