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Under the Hood

Fire Up and Fine-Tune Your Employee Culture

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15 mins. de lectura
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Executives think they are in charge of their firms, but, in actuality, employee culture rules. 


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Executives love to plan and introduce new business strategies. They begin with fanfare and celebratory kickoffs. Then come territorial road shows and “strategy T-shirts.” Each new, unnerving tactical initiative means new survival rules for your workforce. Employee cultures are “initiative-weary and -wary.” The solution to this dilemma can be easy to understand but difficult to accomplish: Leaders must get their employee culture to commit to the organization’s interests, plans and activities. And that is possible, but only if executives respect that culture. Employee-commitment expert and best-selling author Stan Slap explains how to reach this critical goal.

Summary

Strategic execution depends on employee culture. It’s not planning that makes a strategy successful. It’s implementation. 

For any organization, employee culture is all-powerful. You may think your organization’s goals matter most, but your employee culture can subvert your goals and the executives or managers who support them. Top executives mistakenly believe they run their firms and are responsible for their success. But, ultimately, employee culture determines success.

What employee culture wants, employee culture gets. Executives and managers can’t do everything – or much of anything – by themselves. They need employees, to be exact, the employee culture, to support them and make their initiatives real.

 

In business since the late 1990s, GoDaddy is a superstar website-hosting firm with more than 12 million clients. It thrives in no small part because of its employee culture. Hosting websites means GoDaddy needs staffers working around the clock. In its early years, it relied on volunteers to cover Christmas and other...

About the Author

Stan Slap is founder and CEO of SLAP Company, an international consulting and management development firm. He also wrote Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers.


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