organizational values – Authentic Organizations

Measuring Meaningful Differences: College Rankings and Identity

Sep 16, 2010

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in Image & Reputation, Organizational Identity, Research & Science

Here’s a mini-exam for you. College ranking systems are: A. A great way to sell magazines and get your publication’s name in the news B. A scam that preys on the social and economic insecurities of educational organizations C. A somewhat-helpful guide to prospective students D. A process that is entirely gamed by the organizations…

Authentic Organizational Values at Smith & Nephew: The Greatest of these is …

Nov 20, 2009

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cv harquail

in Authentic or Not?, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections

Love. That was what I saw when I went to the home page of Smith & Nephew: UK & Ireland. I saw love, even thought that’s not what Smith & Nephew said was one of their organization’s core values. Smith & Nephew is a medical products company that makes, among many things, wound dressings. I…

Jews and Social Media: Aligned values reinforce an Authentic strategy

Sep 21, 2009

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in Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Claims vs. Behaviors, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Can your organization’s core values make it easier for you to extend yourselves onto social media effectively? For some organizations, absolutely yes. Consider the opportunity for one Jewish organization as it considers its social media strategy. Last week I had the chance to work with a group of non-profit Jewish professionals in charge of youth…

Authenticity in 16 Words?

Apr 3, 2009

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in For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Leading for Authenticity, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections

At soccer practice this week, I came up with a great idea for my 3rd/4th grade girls team. As coach, I have great ambitions for my team this Spring — I want them to do more than chase the ball all around the pitch whilst squealing.Â So, I need to teach them to think just…

Tools for Authentic Organizations: Dotmocracy

Mar 23, 2009

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in Claims vs. Behaviors, Creating Authenticity, Diversity & Feminism, Employees/Individuals, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Great Examples, Organizational Design

The end of “business as usual” Please, let us be coming to the end of “business as usual”. Conversations about whether MBA programs caused the financial crisis and what the future of capitalism should be suggest that ways of doing business that have long been seen as acceptable and even admirable are now being…

The Titanic’s Band: Responsibility at the Rocky Mountain News

Mar 4, 2009

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in Employees/Individuals, Hypocrisy, Leading for Authenticity

The Rocky Mountain News, one of Denver, Colorado’s two daily newspapers, closed on Feb 27 after nearly 150 years of operation. While the print edition is completely gone, and the signs were removed from the building just two days after the closing was announced, the Rocky Mountain News online edition is (still) up, running many…

$819 Billion to show us that transparency is not enough

Feb 12, 2009

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in Claims vs. Behaviors, Hypocrisy, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections, Research & Science, Uncategorized

Earlier today I was mulling over a post by Rachel Happe at The Social Organization, arguing for more transparency about organizational budgets and compensation plans. Rachel asserts that “accounting is really an exercise about setting our priorities and ensuring that we are acting on and accounting for those priorities. ” Thus, Rachel recommends that organizations…

Employee Branding in Reverse: Satyam Scandal turns employees into Untouchables?

Jan 22, 2009

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in Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Employees/Individuals, Image & Reputation

(photo of Satyam colleagues by Tony George) When the organization you work for is involved in a major ethics scandal– does this mean that you and all other members are ‘marked’ too? And does this make sense? Yes. When the organization that you are part of becomes tainted by a public scandal, you and other…

Alternatives to Layoffs: One Truth and Three Lies that keep organizations from trying

Dec 21, 2008

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in Hypocrisy

After weeks of reports of one organization’s layoffs after another (leaving me to wonder who in corporate America still has a secure job) comes a brighter bit of news – some organizations are trying to find alternatives to layoffs to manage the downturn in their economic prospects, according to The New York Times today and…

“What if you could buy social justice?” or Does ‘values shopping’ really make a difference?

Dec 15, 2008

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in Diversity & Feminism, Employees/Individuals, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Hypocrisy, Organizational Design, Progressive Organizational Movements, Sustainability & Greening

Can for-profit, for-purpose organizations make a difference, if we patronize them? Thinking about an organization’s authenticity invites us to examine simultaneously what the organization does and how it does it. When we think about organizations being authentic, we assume that organizations have their business purpose — the thing that they’re out there to "do", and…

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