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		<title>Leaders need to hone their culture sleuthing skills&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;BP as an example of difficulty in changing (shaping) corporate culture  Mr. Tony Hayward knew there were safety problems at British Petroleum (BP) when he became CEO in 2007.  And according to an in-depth article in the New York Times, he put on a &#8216;culture change&#8217; hat and started altering the outward symbols of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flexibility in Corporate Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;openness to sub-cultures will require leveraging diversity skills The brave new world of 21st century organizations is making folks re-think the fundamentals of corporate culture.  Rather than thinking of sub-cultures as problems to work around &#8211; the newer ideas are more about how to openly create sub-cultures as strategies for improved performance.  At the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureconsult.com/leading-workplace-change/2010/07/flexibility-in-corporate-culture/</link>
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		<title>Navigating the Non-profit Workplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;mission-driven organizations help the world, but their corporate cultures can drag them down A friend recently asked &#8211; &#8220;please help me figure out how to navigate the dysfunctional world of my non-profit workplace.  This place has a great external reputation for helping children, but internally is a crazy place to work.&#8221; She proceeded to describe the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureconsult.com/leading-workplace-change/2010/06/navigating-the-non-profit-workplace/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Fast Zebras&#8217; Help to Shape-shift Corporate Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;..knowing how and when to work the formal and informal elements to make things happen Sometimes you believe in something and act upon it in your life &#8211; and then someone else finds a way to name and describe it and you say &#8211; &#8220;ah-hah, that is what I have been doing, but now I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Leaders Taking Charge of Corporate Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;learn how to shape the culture of your group to meet the needs of changing times As current leaders of companies and governments around the world struggle to address the issues of today, there is a gnawing sense that we need to do a better job in preparing the next generation of leaders.  What do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow&#8217;s Corporate Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;take the risk- try on new behaviors &#8211; and start creating the corporate culture of the future   Recently observed an article on msn.com&#8217;s Career Builder page that piqued my interest &#8211; 5 Workplace Rules That Are Made to Be Bent.  I put on my culture sleuth hat and decided to investigate &#8211; looking for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureconsult.com/leading-workplace-change/2010/04/tomorrows-corporate-culture/</link>
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		<title>Influence of Chinese Culture on Global Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;be on the look out for thinking long-term and achievement-orientation values   I&#8217;ve taken to reading about current events through the eyes of  news outlets from around the world - looking for cultural clues as to the values and belief systems that drive decisions of countries, regions and their organizations across the globe.  A cultural clue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureconsult.com/leading-workplace-change/2010/03/influence-of-chinese-culture-on-global-companies/</link>
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		<title>Before You Tinker with Organizational Culture &#8211; Become a Culture Sleuth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;observe, investigate, dig deeper è link clues together   If you have the inclination or the need to tinker with an organization&#8217;s culture &#8211; you might want to start by becoming a culture sleuth.   Culture sleuths are problem solvers.  Their job is to uncover clues and develop leads which explain why problems are not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureconsult.com/leading-workplace-change/2010/02/before-you-tinker-with-organizational-culture-become-a-culture-sleuth/</link>
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		<title>How To Tinker With Organizational Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;build on what is already working within your organization   Economic instability is still with us.  And, we keep hearing it is going to take awhile to work ourselves out of this financial crisis of the new global age.  Are there culture best practices that allow some companies to make it through hard economic time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureconsult.com/leading-workplace-change/2010/02/how-to-tinker-with-organizational-culture/</link>
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		<title>Corporate Culture of &#8220;U.S. Congress, Inc.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;internally focused - not designed for efficient decision-making &#8211; could use some performance goals Something felt out-of-kilter while watching the State of the Union (SOTU) address last week.  As usual in this event, the media seemed to focus more on who clapped, stood up and frowned than on the content of the speech.  This focus is [...]]]></description>
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