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Why You Should Change Your Organization's Culture
Written by: John BrennanArticle Overview: The culture of your company (and yes, your company has a culture now, whether you can describe it or not) is the habitual way people in the company respond everyday to challenges and opportunities. The habitual way of responding can help your company reach its goals, or it can hinder it. Culture can be changed, though not easily, but first you must know what kind of culture you have and what kind you want.
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Why You Should Change Your Organization's Culture
A New England lumber and hardware retailer was concerned about keeping the chains out of his market. The third generation owner was sorting through ideas for a competitive edge. He knew it couldn't compete with the chains on price or product selection. Service was a possibility, but the chains trained their employees well in that area, too. He experimented with advertising, he redesigned the "look" of the stores, he automated inventory tracking and financial processes and he published an employee handbook for the growing number of new employees.
And then a long time employee reminded the young owner of a well known story of how his grandfather extended credit to his employees during the depression in the 1930s, and how active and generous his father had been in the community all his life. The employee added that it was his opinion that people came to work at the company because of this long tradition of fairness and caring, and they hoped that the current owner would continue it.
The owner realised that if he could attract the best employees, and treat them the way his grandfather and father did, those employees would provide a better shopping experience than the chains ever could. He also knew that the company had grown to a hundred employees, and that he would have to institutionalise the caring and fairness values of his forefathers. And so he began a culture awareness and culture change program, to reinforce those processes and management practices that reinforced the values and drop those that were contradictory.
Today he still owns the market.
Culture change is neither quick nor easy, its not for the fainthearted and no one, not even the president, can escape the requirement to assess and change.
If your business is facing significant challenges or opportunities, and you are planning to acquire or merge with another business, or introduce a new product line, automate your operations, reorganize, reengineer or restructure, your culture can help or it can hinder. It pays to assess.
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Re: Spellcheck?
- [quote="TheAnonymousMan":2f894q6j]When discussing the majority of people I would definitely say that most people hit the "Change" or "Ignore" button without thinking too much about the correct spelling of a word. All bosses are concerned about is getting the report to the Directors meeting on time.[/quote:2f894q6j]
That probably depends on what the "majority" are trying to accomplish. I have word set to alert me about misspellings and grammatical problems, so I fix most as I go. But I also add names etc to the dictionary because I get tired of seeing the red and green squiggles when I know the info is right.
If you're only going to click "Change" or "Ignore" then why bother to take the time to use spell check????? Business people that I work for want the info compiled in a timely manner and they want it right - which is fine because that's the way I strive to do any project. Sending out a memo, letter, report etc with obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes makes the person and the company look bad as far as I'm concerned.
Shri
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- Hi GT
It is only fairly recently that people in South Africa have been able to get full use of Paypal as we were only able at one time to make payments but not receive them. Fortunately this has now changed. I have received money through Global X Change for one of the affiliate programs that I promote and have found them pretty good as the money is normally transferred directly into my bank account within 2-3 days and I have not had any problems with them.
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