June 2017 Member Appreciations
Member appreciations from the 206-2017 year.
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February 2017 Animation: Creating Cultural Contagions
This is the animation from the February 2017 gathering focused on Creating Cultural Contagions. What did you see in the animation? What did it make you think about? What are you wondering about? Click to read the script -
April 2017 Animation: Connecting Cultures
This is the animation from the conversations that took place during the April 2017 gathering focused on the theme of Adaptive Cultures and specifically the topic of Connecting Cultures. Click "more" to view the animation. -
11th Annual LILA Summit Keynote Speaker: Sandy Pentland
Dr. Alex “Sandy” Pentland directs MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program and co-leads the World Economic Forum Big Data and Personal Data initiatives. Pentland’s research focuses on social physics, big data and privacy. His research helps people better understand the “physics” of their social environment, and helps individuals, companies and communities to reinvent themselves to be safer, more productive, and more creative. Pentland shows that, in fact, humans respond much more powerfully to social incentives that involve rewarding others and strengthening the ties that bind than incentives that involve only their own economic self-interest. Sandy has... -
11th Annual LILA Summit Keynote Speaker: Gert Jan Hofstede
Dr. Gert Jan Hofstede is a Dutch population biologist and social scientist in information management and social simulation. Currently a professor at Wageningen University, Dr. Hofstede explores the interplay of the contrasting forces of culturalevolution, societal change and cultural stability. In exploring the generic dynamics of human social behavior, Dr. Hofstede contends that people are not unpredictable, but ill-understood. He uses simulation gaming and social simulation as methods that integrate knowledge from many fields to generate information that can be applied in all kinds of practical contexts. Much of his current work focuses on computational modelling of the social side of complex adaptive systems. This work links to a pioneering study of... -
11th Annual LILA Summit: Adaptive Cultures
“Culture” is often given the credit – or the blame – for whatever is going right or wrong in an organization. But what exactly is organizational culture and what is its relationship to organizational behavior? Do we drive culture or does it drive us? How can culture be changed, maintained, nurtured or leveraged to lead to the results that we seek? Join LILA Member CLOs, guest scholars, and our keynote speakers for a day of interactive presentations and small group discussions on the topic of Adaptive Cultures. The 11th Annual LILA Summit will take place on June 6th 2017 and... -
What We Learned About Unlearning To Learn
This brief represents the culmination of our year of exploring the theme of unlearning to learn together. Over the course of the year, we have explored how we can best define, understand, and foster unlearning. Unlearning is learning to think, behave, or perceive differently, when there are already beliefs, behaviors, or assumptions in place (that get in the way), at either the individual or the organizational level. It becomes important when individuals, groups, and whole organizations have to find ways to effectively support change, overwrite old habits, surface and supplant entrenched ways of thinking, and develop new ways of working... -
Bechtel Wins Chief Learning Officer Award for Second Consecutive Year
“Partnering with the business to develop a game-changing learning program that provides valuable skills to our employees, partners and customers, and essentially adding to the bottom line, is the ultimate goal of an organImage result for lucy dinwiddieization’s learning and development team,” said Lucy Dinwiddie, Bechtel’s chief learning officer. “To be honored with an award as significant as the CLO, demonstrates the collaboration and innovation of the Bechtel team and the commitment to our colleagues across the globe.” -
How To Kill Your Culture with Mary Jo Hatch
Mary Joe Hatch will share the research she conducted about "the top and middle managers’ experiences and understandings of how organizational identity and culture were entangled with transformational change as it unfolded over a 5-year period in Carlsberg Group. Combining ethnography and grounded theory methods with engaged scholarship, our work sits between research and practice, speaking directly to the experience of managers at the same time that it researches both the content and processes of organizational identity and culture. The study shows that engaging in processes of reflecting, questioning, and debating about their organization’s identity led middle managers and employees both to support and resist new organizational identity claims made by top management. Within these identity activation processes we found frequent references relating new identity claims to organizational culture. -
December 8 Member Call featuring Monica Worline
Monica’s scholarship is animated by one of the classic puzzles of organizing: as humans, we hold tremendous potential for capable action, but we are easily swayed into inaction by hierarchy, social norms, conformity, and other regularities of group life. Monica uses her writing, research, and teaching to ask how organizations can enliven the people who work in them, especially in the face of adversity. Monica will share her thinking about creating positive organizational cultures specifically through four frames roles, network ties, routines and values.