Category: All about Authenticity
-
Can Organizations Regain Authenticity by Bringing Back Their Original Visionaries?: Where to, Starbucks?
Too many organizations feel inauthentic. Some organizations never had authenticity, and they feel empty. Other organizations had authenticity once but have since lost it. These organizations feel hollow. In an effort to address its own hollowness, Starbucks has over the last year brought back not one but two of its original visionaries, Howard Schultz and…
-
Organizational Identity, Employee Branding and Political Contributions: Should you care if The Body Shop leans Republican?
The Body Shop is Republican? Anita Roddick must be rolling over in her grave. Released last week were the results of a study that shows how organizations have supported the Republican and Democratic parties. The data include direct corporate support (through Political Action Committees) and/or the support of these organizations’ employees (through individual donations). You…
-
6 Reasons Why Taking Responsibility is Good for Your Organization
In my previous post, Can Taking Responsibility for the Financial Crisis Be Good For You ?, I argue that taking responsibility is the one thing that you and your organization can do , right now, to improve your organization’s financial future. When an organization takes responsibility, it shifts how it sees itself. It moves from…
-
Mix Fake and Real, the Palin Way
People are hungry for authentic leaders and authentic organizations . Assessing an organization’s authenticity or a candidate’s authenticity is one way that we gauge where to place our trust. To entice people to trust us, we need to make them think the organization is authentic. Sometimes, we may even want to create "Fake Authenticity" in…
-
4 Ways Palin Creates a Fake “Reality”
In my earlier post, Use Real Authenticity to Establish Fake Authenticity: Sarah Palin shows organizations how , I argue that Palin is a useful role model for organizations in the way that she has gone about creating "Fake Authenticity." Establishing Fake Authenticity has two steps, and in this post I’ll discuss Step 1: Creating a…
-
Use Real Authenticity to Establish Fake Authenticity: Sarah Palin shows organizations how
Almost anywhere we look at this election season there’s something to learn about authenticity. This is especially true when we’re able to draw analogies between individuals and organizations. Watching the ways that individuals work to present themselves as authentic , we can learn tactics that organizations can use. Sarah Palin has been very effective at…
-
Obama’s Website Made Me Cry
It moved me from intent to action. It snuck past my shield of cynicism. It struck me at the core of what I care about. And it made me remember that what really connects people and organizations is the chance for them both to be authentic. What hooked me wasn’t the way the Campaign organization…
-
3 Things the New York Jets Can Teach You About Authenticity
Who knew that the New York Jets knew so much about being authentic? The New York Jets moved into their new training facility in Florham Park, NJ, just last week. Stories about the new building (designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP) describe it as huge, high-tech, state of the art, and light filled. Take…
-
Black Organizations: Authenticity through "an obligation to our own"?
What makes an organization or business authentically “Black”? [Or for that matter, what makes an organization authentically “feminist”, authentically “Mormon”, authentically “Republican”, and so on?] By my definition, an organization is authentically “Black” not when the majority of its members or employees are Black, but when the organization promotes the interests of the Black community.…