144: How We Do Things Around Here for Results, with Kent Rhodes
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 9 June 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Kent Rhodes: The Family Business Consulting Group
Culture is how we do things around here. The three Levels of Culture from Edgar Schein
- Artifacts
- Espoused values
- Underlying assumptions
Culture is difficult to identify when you are inside of it. Organizations confuse climate and culture:
- Climate comes from the outside and tends to be more temporary
- Culture is what is happening internally and more difficult to change
Resources
- Books
- Organizational Culture and Leadership* by Edgar Schein
- Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture* by Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn
- Articles
- The Trader Joe’s Experience by Mark Mallinger and Gerry Rossy
- Recognizing Organizational Culture in Managing Change by Mark Mallinger, Don Goodwin, and Tetsuya O’Hara
- The Competitive Advantage of Culture in a Family Business by Kelly LeCouvie and Kent Rhodes
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| 0:00.0 | When someone says to you, well, that's just how we do things around here, |
| 0:05.0 | you can be sure that you've just stumbled into organizational culture in a big way. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, how to recognize it, why it matters, and what it means for actual results. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 144. |
| 0:22.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:27.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host |
| 0:37.2 | Dave Stahovia. This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through improved communication, human |
| 0:45.8 | relations, and personal productivity. And as you know this is a show about the most important parts of organization, which are the people, |
| 0:56.1 | and how people can be effective and how we can best lead others. |
| 1:00.8 | And one part of leadership that we all have experienced, in fact we all experience it daily and it influences everything that we do is the culture of the organization that we work in and |
| 1:16.3 | yet culture is something that many times we don't talk very much about or even recognize not only our own culture of dynamics, but the dynamics of the entire organization. |
| 1:28.8 | And that is why I am so thrilled today to welcome not only someone who is really an expert on |
| 1:36.8 | organizational culture but a dear friend of ours and that is Dr Kent Rhodes. |
| 1:41.8 | Kent is a full-time practitioner faculty at the in the |
| 1:45.8 | Department of Management at Pepperdine University of one of my alma |
| 1:50.0 | matters and in fact was a professor of mine when I was in school at Pepperdine and both |
| 1:55.4 | Bonnie and I have had the privilege of being in Kent's classroom many |
| 2:00.3 | moons ago it's actually been 10 years, Kent. Can you believe that? |
| 2:04.4 | That's amazing. I can't, I can't hardly believe it. He is also a consultant with the |
| 2:08.8 | family business consulting group. He travels all over the world, working with organizations. He's been a successful businessman. He is someone who just is so talented in so many ways and I am so thrilled that you are here on the show, Kent. |
| 2:23.4 | Welcome. |
| 2:24.0 | Thanks, Dave. |
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