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We at Senn Delaney wish you a healthy and high-performance 2012. To help you, your team and your organization thrive this year, we are pleased to share the best of our thought leadership and interviews. These articles and videos are intended to deepen leaders' understanding that organizational cultures can be intentionally shaped, and that high-performance, thriving cultures create the greatest competitive advantage and achieve outstanding results. Warmest wishes for 2012!

We are pleased to share four of the year's best CEO interviews on culture featuring ING Direct CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann, Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh, Ogilvy & Mather Chairman Shelly Lazarus, and The Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus.

Griffin Hospital is considered a leader in innovative healthcare, but that wasn't always the case. Today, CEO Pat Charmel shares the story behind the turnaround that led to Griffin being named one of Fortune Magazine's top places in America to work. It all started with innovative thinking, a true focus on the customer and overcoming resistance to conventional thinking and change.

YUM! Brands CEO and Chairman David Novak offers powerful and sincere directives for creating a cohesive, success-oriented corporate culture in his new book, TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU: The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen. Several of Senn Delaney's culture-shaping principles are noted in the book. We are pleased to share an excerpt.

James L. Heskett's new book, The Culture Cycle: How to shape the unseen force that transforms performance, demonstrates that developing an effective culture can account for up to half of the difference in operating income between two organizations in the same business. Senn Delaney is pleased to share an exclusive chapter excerpt, Measuring Effectiveness.

engage full organization

Engaging the entire organization provides the greatest impact

Clients that have done this using our organizational engagement process to create a thriving, high-performance culture with all employees operate at their best from top to bottom have experienced many important benefits.

A healthy, high-performance culture best ensures:

  • better execution of strategies
  • added operational efficiency and excellence
  • more successful mergers and acquisitions
  • more satisfied customers
  • more engaged employees
  • growing bench strength

Thriving, high performance organizations have everyone from top to bottom aligned on their vision, strategies and direction. They also are characterized by an essential set of values and behaviors we bring to life in our process. These include:

  • performance excellence
  • cross-organizational collaboration
  • innovation and change
  • a positive, winning spirit
  • integrity in the broadest sense

One of our distinctive capabilities is to be able to bring these concepts to life, not just at the top of organizations but from top to bottom in organizations of any size. We have done that successfully in many organizations with a few thousand people to global companies with hundreds of thousands of employees.

Two things make this possible:

  1. Our innovative Transfer of Competence process. We prepare internal leaders to carry the culture-shaping process deeply into your organization using the same approach that we use for your top teams.

  2. Our Senn Delaney Connect technology platform. Our system can gather diagnostic input and deliver reinforcement messages, such as our eCoach™ reinforcements, to large populations.