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6 Defining Values of a Leadership Culture

N2Growth Blog

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. These are factors I’ve learned that define whether an organization can improve their Culture or not. How does that define one’s culture?

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Cross-Cultural Design

A List Apart

When I first traveled to Japan as an exchange student in 2001, I lived in northern Kyoto, a block from the Kitayama subway station. I pride myself on being a third-culture kid , meaning I was raised in a culture other than the country named on my passport. I thought I had everything I needed to successfully make the trip.

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

CIO

In his 2001 best-seller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t , author Jim Collins reminds us that “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” This means creating a culture where people want to work and establishing systems for work that people want to do.

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Women IT leaders on their climb to the top

CIO

Just 28% of IT leadership roles are filled by women, according to DDI’s 2023 Global Leadership Forecast , and many women end up leaving IT careers due to workplace culture, pay equity, microaggressions, and a lack of forward growth and promotion, among other uphill challenges.

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A Tribute to a Fallen Hero – Thomas F. Swift (1971-2001)

Terry Starbucker

The NY Times had run a series of profiles on each of the victims (I recall at the time that these pages of profiles were very hard to read because of all the heartwrenching stories), and here was his: December 16, 2001. Swift was around, no one wanted to play Trivial Pursuit or any game that relied on factoids and cultural flotsam.

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Solving cross-platform DevSecOps challenges with Synopsys

Synopsys

This is the first half of the maxim “test early and often” coined by Larry Smith in 2001. It has also been described as a cultural shift involving a holistic approach to producing secure software.

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

This blog provides you with a mental model on how to change behavior of people and how to change the culture of an organisation. To change the culture of your organisation you need to change the structures and lead by example. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Behavior of an employee. What drives behavior of a person?

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