Your culture has a personality.

Here’s how to put it to work.

Insights for CEOs and HR leaders on attracting, engaging, and keeping the people your culture runs on.

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Culture

Your Company’s Biggest Strength Is Also Its Blind Spot

Every culture's downside is its own strength, overused. Here's why it's so hard to see, and how to manage it before it costs you.
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Culture

What Kind of Company Are You? A Beginner’s Guide to Company Personality

Every company has a personality. Here's a simple guide to the four groups most company personalities fall into, and how to tell which one is yours.
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Culture

Culture vs. Values vs. Mission: What’s the Difference?

Mission, vision and values are what a company says. Culture is how what it says is actually experienced. Here's what each term means and how they fit together.
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Culture

Say vs. Do: The Gap Your Employees See Before You Do

Every company has the culture it says it has and the culture it actually runs on. Employees believe the second one.
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Culture

People Quit When No One Defines What “Good” Looks Like

"People quit managers" is half right. You can't get good managers until you define what good looks like at your company.
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Culture

The Perk Trap: Why Adding Benefits Doesn’t Fix Retention

Culture is the cake. Perks are the icing. Why adding benefits rarely fixes engagement or retention, and what does.
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Culture

There’s No Such Thing as a Non-Toxic Culture

Every company has behavior that goes against who it says it is. What matters is whether it's managed, especially when it comes from someone powerful.
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Recruiting

You Had Me at Hello: Why Talent Chooses Who You Are, Not What You Offer

Every company has a pitch. The right people say yes to something else: a company that's clear about who it is.
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Culture

They Didn’t Leave for the Money

"I got a better offer" is rarely the whole story. Why people really leave, and what your exit interviews keep missing.