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Culture and Strategy are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Jamie Notter

There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard about companies who might have chosen a sound strategy, but watched it fall apart because a dysfunctional or even contradictory culture got in the way. but valued, with a “d.”

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Lunchtime Links: The Limits of Your “Young Professionals” Group

Associations Now

This sort of brand hijacking doesn’t always work, but organizations can certainly gain a lot of free exposure from this approach if it’s done well—as the Greater Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau did when it riffed on Peyton Manning’s play-calling a couple weeks ago. And they’re starting too late.

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Future of Work Manifesto

Jamie Notter

Maddie is the one who wrote it up, but it was the result of a weekend retreat last fall of twelve people (including me, Maddie and Charlie; Maddie lists them all in her post) in, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska. We also have a respo­nsibility as organ­izations to provide resources and envir­onments for learning. Free Resources.

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