Vital Tenets
Shaping Organizational Values and Culture
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Vital Tenets
Shaping Organizational Values and Culture
With constant change in organizations we may lose sight of the reason why organizations exist and what the larger goals are stretching back to the founding of the organization. Individuals need to position their role in the larger context of the organization and internalize the unique culture of the organization. Barring that we risk creating our own hybrid culture from our own experiences and personifying that rather than the founding culture of the organization. Unfortunately this is the status quo at many organizations today where there is no uniformity of message or consistency of service. A "roll of the dice' culture then emerges in unpredictable forms. Innovative organizations should seek to have one consistent culture embraced by every employee across the enterprise globally. Much of the responsibility of creating, communicating and reinforcing this organizational culture lies upon the leadership of the organization itself.
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Why are organizational values and culture important or vital?
• Because lack of an embedded, active, positive culture stifles organizational progress.
• Because multiple, warring cultures undermines creating value.
• Because a “bad fit” employee that may exit the organization may really be a “great fit” employee if they are trained on the organizations culture and values as part of enterprise-wide initiative. This is a potential lost opportunity and a wasted investment.
• Because job satisfaction is directly related to agreement on values and culture (culture fit) and happy employees are healthier and produce better results.
• Because every organization must compete and the quality of employees can make the difference in the success or failure of an organization.
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“This book makes a great case for why values-based and leadership-driven companies succeed. With real life examples we can all relate to, Mr. Nolan identifies the negative trends that undermine organizations while giving a practical, step based approach to counter them”.
—Paul Raymond, P.Eng, ICD.D CEO, Alithya Group
“In a time of an evolving global marketplace, numerous business mergers, a technology revolution, and a rapidly changing society, Mr. Nolan has discovered an often invisible, but extremely important, power source. Organizational culture will undoubtedly be a major factor in the success or failure of business’ looking ahead”. —Rev Dr. William C. Hill, Pastor, teacher, and author specializing in religion, leadership and organizational development
“Dave’s innovative approach and insights takes widely accepted ideas and explains how good companies can become great companies if they embrace his Vital Tenets”.
—Kevin B. Harrington, Jr. Recognized as a top relationship sales executive selling over a half billion dollars of IT solutions during the past 20 years.
About the Author
Author David Nolan is the founder of Vital Tenets, an organizational development firm. He has worked in professional services for twenty years as a director of consulting, a project manager, and a developer of management curriculum. He is a graduate of Suffolk University and Law School and has taught business courses at Northeastern University.