Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company

Title: Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company
Author: Kevin Oakes
ISBN: 1260464369 / 978126046436
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 352
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2020
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Seize and expand the competitive edge with a smart, well-managed culture “renovation”

Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture—but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to “transform” a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation. It’s all about keeping what works, changing what needs to be changed, and ensuring proper care and maintenance—much like refurbishing and living in a beautiful historic home and improving its overall value.

In Culture Renovation, the head of the world’s leading HR research firm—the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp)—Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world’s top companies. You’ll find everything you need to rebuild your corporate culture with care and expertise, including:

  • Three phases and detailed action steps for architecting the change you want to see
  • Practical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companies
  • The traits of a healthy corporate culture
  • Proven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term success

Oakes identifies 18 proven leadership actions for turning any culture into an agile, resilient, and innovative high-performance organization. You’ll learn how to best understand the culture in place today and set a new cultural path for decades to come; develop a co-creation mindset;  identify influencers and blockers; ferret out skeptics and non-believers; measure, monitor, and report progress; and implement “next practices” in talent strategies to sustain the renovation.

Culture Renovation delivers everything you need to plan, build, and maintain a corporate culture that drives profits, growth, and business sustainability now and well into the future.

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Chapter 1 : Does Culture Predict Performance? 
Chapter 2 : The Rise of the Unicorns 
Chapter 3 : Culture Renovation Needs to Start at the Top A Blueprint to Renovate Culture

Phase One: Plan
Chapter 4 : Step #1: Develop and Deploy a Comprehensive Listening Strategy 
Chapter 5 : Step #2: Figure Out What to Keep 
Chapter 6 : Step #3: Set Your Cultural Path 
Chapter 7 : Step #4: Define the Desired Behaviors 
Chapter 8 : Step #5: Identify Influencers, Energizers, and Blockers 
Chapter 9 : Step #6: Determine How Progress Will Be Measured, Monitored, and Reported 

Phase Two: Build
Chapter 10 : Step #7: Clearly Communicate That Change Is Coming 
Chapter 11 : Step #8: Ferret Out Skeptics and Nonbelievers Early 
Chapter 12 : Step #9: Paint a Vision for the Future 
Chapter 13 : Step #10: Consciously Collaborate 
Chapter 14 : Step #11: Establish a Co-creation Mindset 
Chapter 15 : Step #12: Provide Training on the Desired Behaviors 

Phase Three: Maintain
Chapter 16 : Step #13: Make Onboarding About Relationships Versus Red Tape 
Chapter 17 : Step #14: Promote Those Who Best Represent the New 
Chapter 18 : Step #15: Change Performance Management Practices 
Chapter 19 : Step #16: Leverage Employee Affinity Groups 
Chapter 20 : Step #17: Increase the Focus on Talent Mobility 
Chapter 21 : Step #18: Don’t Underestimate the Value of External Sentiment