If you’re about to participate in a strategic planning session, you may be expecting a conversation about mission statements, goals, priorities and perhaps a few sticky notes. Those things may all make an appearance. But they aren’t really the point. At its best, strategic planning is a chance to step outside the day-to-day work of running an organization and have a different kind of conversation: Where are we going? Why does that direction matter? What will it take to get there? And what...
Most organizations do not start thinking about culture because something is broken. They start because they are growing. What once felt intuitive now requires intention. Decisions carry more weight. Roles become more complex. Informal norms no longer scale. In this article, we define what culture actually is, what most organizations misunderstand about it, and how to assess whether your growth is strengthening coherence or quietly eroding it.
Project-based grants can fuel growth or quietly distort it. This post explores how funding strategy should inform business strategy, using Positivist Group’s 8 Dimensions to help nonprofits and for-profits pursue grants without losing focus, capacity, or coherence.
As we stand at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, the intertwining of human creativity with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) presents both unprecedented opportunities and formidable challenges. This past week at SocialHRCamp Ottawa, we explored the essence of being human in an AI world—our fears, desires, and imperfections—and how we, as HR professionals and leaders, can harness these qualities to foster a workplace that truly values humanity.
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