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Published: May 15, 2007
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Culture Change: Calling on Philosophers and Engineers

Author Profiles:

Vinay Couto (couto_vinay@bah.com) is a vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton in Chicago. He advises companies across multiple industries on sourcing strategies for business process outsourcing and assists those clients in running outsourcing programs.
Nikos Mourkogiannis (nikos@panthealeadership.com) is a senior advisor on leadership to Booz Allen and a senior partner at Panthea Ltd., a global consulting firm based in London. He is the author of Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Gary L. Neilson (neilson_gary@bah.com) is a senior vice president with Booz Allen in Chicago. The coauthor of Results: Keep What’s Good, Fix What’s Wrong, and Unlock Great Performance (Crown Business, 2005), he leads the Booz Allen team that developed the organizational DNA concept, which helps companies diagnose and solve problems associated with ineffective organization and strategy implementation. 
 
 
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Resources

  1. Nikos Mourkogiannis, Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006): The book on which this article is partly based explores the notion of purpose in business. Click here.
  2. Gary L. Neilson and Bruce A. Pasternack, Results: Keep What’s Good, Fix What’s Wrong, and Unlock Great Performance (Crown Business, 2005): In addition to the “building blocks” of this article, this book describes seven principal organization types and their characteristics. Click here.
  3. Gary L. Neilson, Bruce A. Pasternack, and Karen Van Nuys, “The Passive-Aggressive Organization,” Harvard Business Review, October 2005: This article examines one of the more dysfunctional examples of the seven organization types: the passive-aggressive organization. Click here.
  4. The Organizational DNA Web site: Booz Allen Hamilton has developed an online assessment tool, the OrgDNA Profiler®, that allows individuals to diagnose their organization’s execution culture. Click here.