The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace - Rilegato

Edmonds

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ISBN 10: 1118947320 ISBN 13: 9781118947326

Casa editrice: Wiley, 2014

Riassunto

An organizational "North Star," codifying valued behaviors for optimal performance

The Culture Engine shows leaders how to create a high performing, values aligned culture through the creation of an organizational constitution. With practical step-by-step guidance, readers learn how to define their organization's culture, delineate the behaviors that contribute to greater performance and greater engagement, and draft a document that codifies those behaviors into a constitution that guides behavior towards an ideal: a safe, inspiring workplace. The discussion focuses on people, including who should be involved at the outset and how to engage employees from start to finish, while examples of effective constitutions provide guidance toward drafting a document that can actualize an organization's potential.

Culture drives everything that happens in an organization day to day, including focus, priorities, and the treatment of employees and customers. A great culture drives great performance, and can help attract and retain great talent. But a great culture isn't something that evolves naturally. The Culture Engine is a guide to strategically planning a culture by compiling the company's guiding principles and behaviors into an organizational constitution.

• Decide which behaviors and attitudes are desired in the organization
• Secure leader commitment to planning, drafting, and implementing the document
• Learn the most effective way to socialize the draft statement and get everyone on board
• Model desired behaviors to boost employee engagement throughout the process

Organizational culture is not an amorphous thing – it comes down from the top, inspired and exemplified by the leadership. It can steer a company up or down, keep it on mission or force it off-course. For an organization to fulfill its potential, the culture must be on-point, truly reflecting the heart of the company from leaders to team members across the company. The Culture Engine helps leaders define the playing field, pushing performance to the next level.

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Informazioni sull?autore

S. CHRIS EDMONDS is the founder and CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group, an organizational culture consulting firm. Since 1995, he has also served as a senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. Over the course of his career, Chris has delivered over 100 keynote speeches, authored or coauthored 6 books, and consulted for clients in almost every industry. He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego’s School of Business.

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Praise for the culture engine

Chris Edmonds has spent his career helping organizational leaders clarify, communicate, and align actions around shared values. In this book, Chris reveals his tools of the trade. This practical, experience-based, easy-to-use guide enables you to build an inspiring organizational culture with confidence and determination.
Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge, and Dean s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Culture drives every aspect of an organization s success. In The Culture Engine, Chris clearly spells out how to shift your focus from chasing markets to building a strong, flexible organizational culture founded on clarity of purpose, workplace satisfaction, and bottom-line success.
Marshall Goldsmith, author of the global bestseller What Got You Here Won t Get You There

Chris Edmonds approach will boost your team s spirit, trust, and performance. WD-40 Company s tribe culture is built upon these same concepts. Get this book and create your organization s constitution!
Garry Ridge, president/CEO of WD-40 Company, author, Helping People Win At Work

Organizational culture and performance are intricately interwoven. In this book, Chris shows how to create and use an organizational constitution, a breakthrough tool to help you shape this elusive yet critically important ingredient to organizational success.
Jesse Stoner, coauthor, Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision

Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company s culture to produce transformational business success. Chris operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.
Joseph Michelli, New York Times Bestselling author of Leading the Starbucks Way and The Zappos Experience

Chris book is a concrete road map to creating and managing a productive and inspiring organizational culture. His idea of an organizational constitution is brilliant! Everyone deserves a purpose-driven work environment where employees feel trusted, valued, and respected. Chris shows you how.
Hyrum Smith, cofounder of FranklinCovey

Everyone knows culture is important but most don t know how to change their culture. Chris presents a detailed road map to help any leader deliver an inspiring culture that generates lasting organizational success.
Joel Anderson, president and CEO of Walmart.com

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We are more aware now than ever before of the vital importance of organizational culture. No one is inspired to perform in dreary, frustrating environments, and, in the 21st century, inspiration and engagement are often the only things separating the successes from the failures. But an earnest desire to improve your organization s culture will only get you so far. You need a tangible framework that will give shape to your good intentions. There are many such frameworks out there, but The Culture Engine is the only one that s really in tune with the daily realities faced by leaders at all levels.

It s true that culture-building is an ongoing process, but leaders also need to contend with the day-to-day responsibilities. Until now, no book has provided a way to solidify the culture you want without falling behind on everything else. In fact, The Culture Engine, with its emphasis on developing an organizational constitution, never loses sight of the fact that it s the everyday tasks that add up to a successful team. The goal of this book is to provide readers with a way to build a foundation that will guide daily implementation, allowing effective leadership to really kick in.

Many managers and team leads have a nagging feeling that their people aren t performing to their full potential. Sure, the job is getting done, but is it getting done well, or is it just good enough ? Without a set of principles to point the way to leaders and team members alike, no amount of intervention will squeeze success out of a troubled culture. The Culture Engine shows that those principles don t have to be nebulous and vague quite the contrary.

Author S. Chris Edmonds walks readers through the steps to drafting an organizational constitution with the goal of clarity and a shared vision. With this vision in place, employees feel engaged and inspired to be a part of something with tangible meaning. A culture like that is the holy grail of leadership. Defining, crafting, and managing an organizational constitution per The Culture Engine s clear instructions brings that goal within reach for all of us.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wiley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1118947320
• ISBN 13: 9781118947326
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile