Can transformation survive in your culture? Presented by: Steven Minkin, D.M.

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1 Can transformation survive in your culture? Presented by: Steven Minkin, D.M.

2 Management By Walking Around Defense Business Operating Fund 21 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

3 The final resting place of many a good idea.

4 Cause of demise Friction between ideas and organizational culture.

5 Road Map What is culture Types of organizational cultures What they look like What leaders can do to change culture Understanding different generations

6 What is culture? Beliefs, values and world views of a company Imbedded in all they do by History Leadership Visible through behaviors, rituals, daily routines

7 Types of organizational culture Zeus Apollo Athena Dionysus

8 Zeus

9 What Zeus Looks Like

10 Zeus Characteristics Relationship matters more than title or position Usually in small entrepreneurial organizations Often fast decision making Little documentation Good place to work if you belong

11 Apollo

12 What Apollo Looks Like

13 Apollo Characteristics Tasks divided box by box Prescribed roles Rules and regulations Great if you can assume tomorrow is like yesterday Stability and predictability encouraged Individual personality not welcomed fit the job Ignore change do more of the same

14 Athena

15 What Athena Looks Like

16 Athena Characteristics Define problems Allocate resources to solve problems Judges performance on results & problem solved Expertise is base of power and influence Expensive to staff Creativity is valued Team culture

17 Dionysus

18 What Dionysus Looks Like

19 Dionysus Characteristics Preferred by professionals Individual is the asset of organization Lend their talents to the organization Administrators are at bottom of status list

20 Cultural Challenges

21 How to ID a culture Ask someone where they work: Answer 1: I work for Mr or Mrs So and So Zeus Culture Answer 2: I work with X and Y company or organization Apollo Culture Answer 3: I am in marketing with X company. Athena Culture Answer 4: I am a doctor. Dionysus

22 Communication Strategies Zeus: Verbal vs. written communication Intuition vs analysis Zeus learn in secret Apollo: Power comes from position Change roles and responsibilities Budgets Athena: Get consensus from group Demonstrate expertise Dionysus: Good luck!

23 Sure fire ways to change culture What are you paying attention to? Link vision and strategy to transformation Convert the critics Be patient Find your influencers Grow through subtraction Be a thermostat

24 Where to focus your attention Opinions Traditions Core Essentials

25 Other tools to identify culture True Colors Brink, T.L. (1991). Corporate cultures: a color coding metaphor. Business Horizons, September-October. Retrieved November 8, 2006, from EBSCOHost Database. Oliver C. (2001, May - June), Getting Personal, Board Leadership Policy Governance in Action, 55. Retrieved October 14, 2006, from EBSCOHost database Myers Briggs Sirmans, D. (2002). Assessing organizational learning style using the organizational character index and Myers- Briggs type theory, Syracuse University, Retrieved, September 10, 2007, from EBSCO Host Database.

26 The challenge of today s workforce

27 A Timeline of Generations Silent Generation: Baby Boomer: Generation X: Generation Y:

28 A Timeline of Generations Silent Generation: Baby Boomer: Generation X: Generation Y: Mature / Peacemaker Generation 1 st generation to have women in workforce Strong human relations skills

29 A Timeline of Generations Silent Generation: Baby Boomer: Generation X: Generation Y: Million people Looking to retirement Will work long hours, leave kids at home

30 A Timeline of Generations Silent Generation: Baby Boomer: Generation X: Generation Y: Million people Most educated generation Committed to families not going to repeat Boomers work legacy

31 A Timeline of Generations Silent Generation: Baby Boomer: Generation X: Generation Y: Also known as Millenials Million people Most ethnically diverse Techno literate Expect to change jobs frequently Easily bored, respect is earned

32 A few other differences

33 Phew, that was a lot of stuff!!! What is culture Types of organizational cultures What they look like What leaders can do to change culture Understanding different generations

34 Questions?

35 References: Brink, T.L. (1991). Corporate cultures: a color coding metaphor. Business Horizons, September-October. Retrieved November 8, 2006, from EBSCOHost Database. Handy, C. (1995). Gods of management, the changing work of organizations. New York. Oxford University Press. Kouzes, J. (2003). Business leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Kuhn, T. (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL. The University of Chicago Press. Larue, B.,& Childs, P. & Larson, K. (2006). Leading organizations from the inside out: unleashing the collaborative genius of action learning teams. New York, NY. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Maxwell, J. (1998). The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership. Nashville, TN. Thomas Nelson. Sirmans, D. (2002). Assessing organizational learning style using the organizational character index and Myers-Briggs type theory, Syracuse University. Retrieved, September 10, 2007, from EBSCO Host Database. Walker, D. (2005). The public strategies group 2005: Reinventing government symposium. Retrieved January, 10, 2007 from,