You Have a Leadership Problem
You Have a Leadership Problem Accountability gets tossed around in every leadership meeting, but most companies still get it wrong. It often shows up as performance reviews, stack rankings, or awkward check-ins—more about evaluation than empowerment. The result is disengaged employees, ineffective managers, and stalled progress. Ron Carucci’s article in Harvard Business Review highlights the disconnect. Most managers admit they don’t know how to hold others accountable, and most employees say the way their performance is managed does not motivate them. This is not a performance problem. It is a leadership problem. At Culture Partners, we have found that accountability only works when it is...
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The One Question That Changed My Career
The One Question That Changed My Career This question—What is your boss’s boss worried about?—has changed the way I work, lead, and think. It’s the...
Good Leaders Lie
Good Leaders Lie We’ve all heard the phrase “good leaders lie”—and not because they’re malicious, but because they think they have to. To protect...
Why That Offsite Didn’t Fix Anything
Why That Offsite Didn’t Fix Anything You can spend a fortune on a company offsite, deliver inspiring keynotes, fill whiteboards with arrows, and get...
AI is Here. Three CEOs Responded—One Got It Right.
AI is moving fast. Some leaders are using that momentum to inspire progress. Others are hiding behind it to justify layoffs, confusion, or fear....
“On Second Thought…”
I’m currently reading Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties, a memoir of ideological disillusionment by David Horowitz and Peter...
Houston we have a culture problem.
Last week’s Blue Origin space launch—featuring Katy Perry and an all-female crew—was marketed as a celebration of empowerment. But the public wasn’t...
Disruption Is So 2010s—Time to Move On
In the early days of my career at Oracle, “disruption” was a buzzword so overused it became almost meaningless. We talked about it like it was the...
Agility Is the New Stability
I recently worked with a global pharmaceutical company in the animal health space during a week of political uncertainty—tariffs had been announced,...
You Are Addicted to Action
Workaholics Anonymous began in the 1990s, but their founding belief still rings true: “No matter how much work I did, it was never enough.” That...
When “Scrappy” Becomes Sloppy: What Amazon’s Culture Overhaul Gets Wrong
A friend once described working at Amazon as “building a rocket ship while being pushed off a cliff.” That same intensity once felt like innovation....
A Culture for All Generations
Disrupting the way we think about generations to attract, engage, and retain all employees
There’s a real benefit in dismantling the perceptions behind Gen Z or X, or whatever the next trendy label is! Citing extensive academic research from her book, Unfairly Labeled, Jessica provides a refreshingly enlightening and data-driven perspective on how multi-generational organizations can strip away stereotypes and and biases that hinder performance and prevent progress toward a common purpose.
