CREATING A PARTNERING CULTURE


Chapter 1, an overview of organization culture, underscores the link between culture and bottom-line business results. An organization culture is a self-reinforcing system, and culture rules. Culture springs mainly from how leaders behave. Culture by evolution happens when no deliberate thought or design is applied to the configuration of an organization's culture. Culture by design happens when leaders sit down and formulate a culture and then rigorously communicate and live by its tenets. In the twenty-first century, a business that wants to stay alive, and thrive, must learn the lessons of a designed culture.

After opening with some key culture-related questions, Chapter 2 outlines the authors' concept of a partnering organization and lists its advantages as compared to a traditional command-and-control enterprise. To build a partnering organization, leaders must create a partnering culture, a culture designed both to expedite internal alliances and to extend the same partnering expertise externally to forge mutually beneficial relationships with other companies. The primary characteristics of a partnering culture derive from the Six Partnering AttributesTM: Self-Disclosure and Feedback, Win-Win Orientation, Ability to Trust, Future Orientation, Comfort with Change, and Comfort with Interdependence. A partnering culture, a governing culture, fosters collaboration among existing subcultures, rather than cutthroat competition. Creating a partnering culture positions an organization to accrue four chief benefits: openness, creativity, agility, and resiliency.




Powerhouse Partners. A Blueprint for Building Organizational Culture for Breakaway Results
Powerhouse Partners: A Blueprint for Building Organizational Culture for Breakaway Results
ISBN: 0891061959
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 94

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