Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company

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 seePractical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companiesThe traits of a healthy corporate cultureProven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term successOakes 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.