All articles tagged: the Katzenbach Center

Edgar Schein, MIT’s sage of organizational culture, explains why the quest for accountability should start with interdependence.

Start using it instead — to reinforce and build the new behaviors that will give you the high-performance company you want.

Five factors make the greatest difference in fostering the new behaviors needed for a transformation. All of them reflect the basic importance of people in implementing and embedding change.

Both big business and big government should shift their management cultures from compromise to integration.

Integrating formal metrics and informal communication can lead to new levels of performance.

Post-recession success depends on tapping the informal aspects of an organization and avoiding the temptation to rely solely on formal systems, processes, and programs.

Any company that competes on the global stage must, in light of today’s changing workforce, rethink the way it manages people.

Companies can improve their innovation performance by getting their formal and informal organizations in sync.