Step inside any company, no matter the size, stage of development, or level of success, and the culture is either driving the strategy or undermining it.
Debate and difference of opinion, lightly salted with an appropriate amount of passion and tenacity, can help lead to significant breakthroughs. In the world of corporate correctness we are all living in, this should be highly encouraged. I really appreciated Bob Frisch's response to my recent article on the importance of culture. Though I think he missed the point, the overwhelming number of people who embraced the notion that culture is imperative for sustained success is an indication of the importance of this issue and the opportunity culture offers for positive change.
People matter. More than machinery, products, and real estate. People invent and build. People support and serve customers. Your people either create or undermine value, cultivate or kill relationships, drive or reduce success. A well-conceived strategy living in the hands of unhappy, misdirected, misinformed people is a sure way to a slow and painful death. There is no comparison to being in the hearts and hands of energized, informed, and motivated people.
Companies are not linear, inert systems. They are ever-changing, organic communities that are dependent on the engagement, talent, and energy of their people to operate successfully. Ignore the mental well-being of your people and culture at your own peril. Step inside of any company, no matter the size, stage of development, or level of success, and the culture is either driving the strategy or undermining it. To exist in the first place, a company must have a clear purpose, a deliberate intent, and a directive or set of ideas that it uses to pursue a clear goal, but it's the people who have to execute it.
There is abundant evidence in every industry that the best-laid plans (or strategies) are derailed, suffocated, or eaten by cultures that either don't understand or straight-out reject the intent. And this, in turn, slows, sucks the life out of, or sabotages the implementation or execution of the company's strategy.
For the sake of debate, let's assume there are two kinds of companies in the world: those driven by strategy, where culture is not a priority, and those guided by a clear strategy, where culture is highly valued and universally understood. To help clarify what's important, let's look at the relationship between culture and strategy.
EVERY COMPANY NEEDS A CLEAR STRATEGY...REALLY?
You don't need to be told that a company must have a clear reason for being and a plan of action. But, you might be surprised by how many companies lack strategic clarity, and whose only purpose is to make a profit. To be clear, making money is absolutely imperative, but it is just one of the outcomes of a successful company.
Competitive differentiation and optimal financial performance do not come from strategy alone. To ignore the potential of a fully engaged and mobilized culture that understands, embraces, encourages, executes, and enhances strategy is negligent and a missed opportunity. It is imperative that today's leaders not only understand and focus on the interdependence of strategy and culture, but also step back and examine their own role--it is one of the most important areas of their personal responsibility. The mental and physical health of the company in their care must be paramount for sustainable success.
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STRATEGY IS RATIONAL AND CULTURE IS EMOTIONAL.
Strategy, at its core, is rational, logical, clear and simple. It should be easy to comprehend and to talk about. Without a clear strategy, a company is lost. Culture, on the other hand, means different things to different people. It is emotional, ever-changing, and complex. Culture is human, vulnerable, and as moody as the people who define it. It can be intimidating and frustrating, often leaving leaders dodging it, neglecting it, or discounting it. Because so many large companies are run by people whose expertise is heavily skewed to the rational, financial, and legal side of the equation, culture is often subordinated, misunderstood, or underappreciated.
EVERY COMPANY HAS A CULTURE, BUT NOT EVERY CULTURE IS HEALTHY.
Culture is the environment in which the intent of your company is nurtured, fueled, restricted, or suffocated. Every company has a culture and its health should be monitored and cared for. Cultures reach their full potential when the people in the trenches doing the day-to-day hard work understand the game and are fully informed and engaged. Healthy and vibrant cultures are directed, purposeful, vibrant, optimistic, and highly-successful because they are fueled by the company's larger purpose and supported by the capability to follow through. A company with a healthy culture is able to operate at its fullest potential while one with an unhealthy culture operates far from its best.
VISIONARY LEADERS ARE REQUIRED FOR SUCCESSFUL CULTURE.
Like a great coach, a leader's job is to clearly set the intent for the journey, model the correct behaviors, lead with an understood set of values, communicate clearly and with sincerity, and set clear expectations and guardrails for the culture to thrive within. It's the team's job to bring their best game every day and to execute the game plan to the very best of their ability. Like any great sports team, a culture is built by motivation, communication, training, encouragement, and celebrating both small and significant successes.
Culture is the field on which the strategy plays. A vibrant and functional culture is like a blanket that embraces, protects, and nurtures the strategy. A company without a strategy lacks direction. A strategy without a culture that understands or embraces it is like a sports team without spirit.
UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND STRATEGY.
1. Strategy drives focus and direction while culture is the emotional, organic habitat in which a company's strategy lives or dies.
2. Strategy is just the headline on the company's story--culture needs a clearly understood common language to embrace and tell the story that includes mission, vision, values, and clear expectations.
3. Strategy is about intent and ingenuity and culture determines and measures desire, engagement, and execution.
4. Strategy lays down the rules for playing the game, and culture fuels the spirit for how the game will be played.
5. Strategy is imperative for differentiation but a vibrant culture delivers the strategic advantage.
6. Culture is built or eroded every day. How you climb the hill and whether it's painful, fun, positive, or negative defines the journey.
7. When culture embraces strategy, execution is scalable, repeatable, and sustainable.
8. Culture is a clear competitive advantage.
9. Culture must be monitored to understand the health and engagement of your organization.
10. Strategy and culture both require the clarity and power of brand to bring them seamlessly together.
Shawn Parr is the The Guvner & CEO of Bulldog Drummond, an innovation and design consultancy headquartered in San Diego whose clients and partners have included Starbucks, Diageo, Jack in the Box, Adidas, MTV, Nestle, Pinkberry, American Eagle Outfitters, IDEO, Virgin, Disney, Nike, Mattel, Heineken, Annie's Homegrown, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, CleanWell, The Honest Kitchen, and World Vision. Follow the conversation at @BULLDOGDRUMMOND.
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By Bobbi Roe
2012
"Amelia's Garden Working party" was a kick-off charity performance sponsored by Nancy Auth and Anne Simpson, Museum of Line Trustees, to bloat coffers in order to assume a Lockheed Electra 10E for the Museum. The game was assumed in the side Terrace at the Museum of Line in Seattle. Guests were delimited by construct. The game was attended by cohorts from all over the United States. The first Amelia Garden Working party will become an annual game of the Museum of Flight's suitable foothold of one of only 2 after everything else Lockheed Electra E10s.
The museum anticipates adding the Electra as a bookend to the a number of construct that C.L. "Kelly" Johnson helped current of air or managed the development of." The Electra was his first current of air and the SR-71 is his ultimate current of air. The Electra will sit in the south-east segment very close to the SR-71 Blackbird. Marta Bohn Meyer was a 99 who was a crewmember on the Blackbird SR-71. She solitary her life in her aerobatic construct due to procedural problems. The Museum's Blackbird M-21 was built in 1963, and is the lone surviving example of its type. The Lockheed Electra will bookend the construct understood by Kelly with the Blackbird.
A image of the give birth to being planned for the Lockheed Electra E10 and Amelia Earhart Instruct for the Museum of Line in Seattle, Washington. The museum will expand their Amelia Earhart give birth to with further artifacts and educational opportunities for young women. The museum at present has the only acclaimed characteristic of Amelia's Lockheed, salvaged from her ground-loop in Honolulu in 1937.
L-R: Amelia is portrayed by Chelsea Olson, a museum volunteer.
Eva Parks, High-class Seattle Stage of the Ninety-Nines Worldwide Compact of Women Pilots, and Christine Runte, Registrar at the Museum of Line, holding the only ration of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10E Electra to stay once upon a time her ground-loop in Honolulu. It is on show at the Museum of Line in Seattle.
Amelia's Garden Working party co-chairs:
Anne Simpson (Delta Airbus 330 Boss)
Nancy Auth, a import jet direct. She flies a Quotation and Seneca.
Anne is the third woman direct hired by Northwest Airlines, at present on high a 747 for Delta. Northwest Airlines was the first controller of the Lockheed Electra 10E being considered for the Museum of Line.
Nancy is a import jet direct.
Lockheed Electra displayed at Oshkosh Air Show.
Linda Finch flew this Lockheed Electra 10E on her world evade in 1997 to recreate Amelia's evade. She dropped a wreath over Howland Islet anyplace it is assumed Amelia ran out of add to and landed in the subaquatic. The United States Wheel Sentinel ship Itasca searched for hours. The Azure searched miserable with construct off the Colorado to frozen her and the Electra. Nautical construct from the Colorado flew over the Phoenix Islands, and next again north, west and southwest of Howland Islet, but no band of the Electra was flinch. Azure construct shipper Lexington and further ships continued until July 19, 1937, shield 150,000 playground miles and figure up to an unprecedented 4 million dollars
Sixty living far ahead Linda Finch first-rate Amelia's suppose. She followed in Amelia's way completing Amelia's half-done round-the-world evade in a draw to a close Lockheed 10E Electra. It is this Electra the Museum of Line in Seattle, Washington is raising coffers for an Amelia Earhart give birth to to focal point their education for young women and men. Amelia Earhart is a role model for young girls. Amelia Earhart is increasingly the first or second give birth to in prominence at Museum of Line by attendees asking questions.
L-R: Dr. Bonnie Dunbar and Chief Patricia "Trish" Beckman, USN (ret.) and at present Line Hearing Navigator for Boeing's Consumer Seaplane Position.
Carol Osborne, Aviation Historian, appearing in a wing pin with diamonds that belonged to Amelia Earhart. Amelia's sister Murial gave the pin to Carol as a thank you bestow for writing "My Heroism Sister" published in 1987.
Bonus exhibits of women aviators in the Museum of Line include:
Women AirForce Usefulness Pilots (WASP)
ATA - English Women Pilots WWII
Russian Women Pilots WWII
Dorothy Hester, Placatory Northwest Aviation Speculator.
Acknowledgements
Patricia Beckman (Trish) USN (ret.) Navigator for Boeing Team
Dennis Parks - Museum of Line
Eva Parks - Ninety-Nine - High-class Seattle Stage
Mike Flowering shrub - Museum of Line
Anne Simpson - Museum of Line Trustee
Nancy Auth - Museum of Line Trustee
Ref: Mud protuberance - Placatory Aviation Museum.org
37, Ford Islet 319 Lexington Stroll, Honolulu, HI
Ref: wingnet.org - Universe Line 1997
Womenaviators.org - Cindy Rousseau
(c) 2012 Women Fly, Inc.
Amelia Earhart has been an opinion to women and girls for generations. Release Amelia, supported by the haste and new members of the ALL Ladies Polite society, is the Museum of Flight's new women's give somebody a ride. The goal is to fund a restored Lockheed Electra Identity 10-E to be the centerpiece of a permanent Amelia Earhart Instruct.
This special construct NC-14900 has a just what the doctor ordered history on its own. It was built for Northwest Airlines and began passenger service in 1935. It served in WWII and next went back to on high passengers for various airlines until it was restored to copy Amelia Earhart's Electra in 1996. In 1997 Linda Finch flew it in relation to the world reenacting Amelia's evade. Now organize is only one further decided Lockheed Electra Identity 10-E in years.
But the real story here is stirring young people, particularly girls, to endure some risks and become the best they can be. Inadequate a doubt, the way Amelia lived her life has brim swayed women for generations. From pilots, to engineers, to explorers and direct towards shape designers, Amelia helped pave the way for women to enter ancestors and multiple further professions.
Museum of Line
www.museumofflight.org
When a woman visits your house, whether it is after your first date, or after a few dates, it can sometimes get awkward if you run out of things to talk about or if she gets the impression that you are trying to make a move on her. Below are 8 things you should have in your house that are great conversation starters and help you take things to the next level.
HAVE SOMETHING HOMEMADE
Whether it's a piece of furniture, a sculpture or pieces of artwork, have something on display that you have made yourself. This shows that you have some sort of talent and have other interests. Even if it's not even that good you can both have a laugh at it. Either way if you have fun with it, she will too.
A GAMES CONSOLE
In the past, having a games console used to be a major turn off for women and you might have been considered being a geek for having one. However games consoles such as the Nintendo Wii have become a lot more interactive and women now often play them too. Buy some women friendly interactive games such as Just Dance 2 or Wii Party and play against each other. Make some friendly bets and forfeits that the loser has to do for the winner.
WINE
Buy a rack and stock it up with some wine. The wine doesn't have to expensive and you can get some decent bottles for under lb10. Offering her a glass of wine instead of a beer is much classier and will impress her.
INTERESTING BOOKS
Have a selection of interesting books on your coffee table. Dating books are good as they create interesting conversations. Also books of countries you have visited such as Lonely Plant are good conversation starters.
A COLLAGE OF PICTURES
Have a main wall in your house that is full of pictures that tell a story. Create a collage of pictures that show the places you have been in the world, pictures of family and friends and pictures of you when you were younger. This will defiantly get her asking more questions and show an interest.
A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
If you can play a musical instrument keep it out on display and grab her attention. If you aren't musically talented, why not take lessons and learn. My favourite is the acoustic guitar.
A PET
It common knowledge that women love most types of animals. It doesn't have to be a cat or a dog so if you haven't got a pet yet don't worry. Consider buying a fish tank and having a few fish. Having a pet shows that you are responsible and able to provide. Women specifically look for these qualities in a man.
COOKING APPLIANCES
Having a few cooking appliances in your kitchen shows that you can do more than just cook toast. Learn a few recipes and then invite her over for dinner one night in the future and have fun cooking dinner together.
Recommended books (downloadable pdfs):Michael Pilinski - 3 Perfecting Your Dominant Male Attitude
Laurie Weiss - 24 Tips For Having A Great Relationship
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