Over the years, data has supported the notion that culture eats strategy for breakfast. But then subsequent studies suggest that strategy is more important — it eats culture. This year is an interesting mix.
by Theresa M. Welbourne
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What employee resource groups can teach leaders about innovation
What employee resource groups can teach leaders about innovation
By Theresa M. Welbourne
The Biggest Challenges for a Hybrid Workplace—and How to Overcome Them
Jennifer Deal, senior research scientist of the USC Marshall Center for Effective Organizations, on the challenges of hybrid workplaces, in The Wall Street Journal.
How Does Your Garden Grow? The Interface of Employee and Sales Growth Post IPO
Article co-authored by Theresa Welbourne, CEO senior affliliated researcher.
HR Strategy Tops Priority List for 2022: New Findings from the Latest Business Drivers Study
In this study of what Dr. Welbourne calls the Business Drivers Research, she starts by exploring the way many studies are done in organizations today.
How to Steer Clear of Groupthink
by Alec Levenson, Jennifer Mueller, and Sarah Harvey
Harvard Business Review
The Intersection of HR Business Partnering, Analytics and OD
The Intersection of HR Business Partnering, Analytics and OD
with Alec Levenson and Maura Stevenson
How to Do Relevant Research – Part 3
with Dr Philip H. Mirvis and Dr. Susan Albers Mohrman
How to Do Relevant Research – Part 2
with Dr Susan Albers Mohrman, Prof Christopher G. Worley and Prof John Boudreau
How to Do Relevant Research – Part 1
with Dr. Philip Mirvis (Babson), Dr. Susan Mohrman (USC), and Professor Christoper Worley (Pepperdine)
Seeing Around Corners: Emerging Trends Disrupting Organization Design
Seeing Around Corners: Emerging Trends Disrupting Organization Design
with Beth Gunderson and Sarah Sonnenfeld
Repricing work and consumption in the wake of Covid-19
When Covid-19 gripped the global economy in the first half of 2020, there was an immediate shock to the economic system because the “price” of doing work in person was suddenly, and quite dramatically shifted. If the virus mitigation measures and vaccines rollouts over the past 19 months had put the world on a path to sustainable economic recovery heading into 2022, the negative economic impacts would be going away quickly right now.