Erika Clegg
Peloton: living the values on the shopfloor
Culture is at its most authentic furthest away from the C-Suite. If your values are not wholehearted, are not driven into every action,...
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Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Which is worse: flouting values, or letting them slide?
Did Boris turn a blind eye, or encourage the parties? (Let’s assume that he did actually know they weren’t strictly work.) And - also...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
The magical alchemy of values (and a slightly suspect formula)
Funny old things, values. Firmly fixed and yet to underpin cultural transformation they must be fantastically flexible too.* Values come...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Because we want to!
I’m working with an organisation whose volunteer workforce outnumbers its paid team by almost 4:1 and, in the serendipitous way of...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Who is the management gurus' guru's guru?
Not only did Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) influence many business experts' favourite management guru Peter Drucker, who referred to...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
In praise of unorthodoxy
I introduced someone the other day as one of the most unorthodox business people I know. He’s the personification of zigging when others...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
No more Mr Nice Guy.
Values don't need to be NICE. What?!? It's true. Corporate values are shared beliefs, attitudes, areas of focus. They allow people to...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
What are values? A Psychologist's view.
Child Psychologist Dr Frank J. Ninivaggi M.D. (Yale) answered this question in Psychology Today in 2016. Values are personally chosen...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Jim Collins's values and vision (and our purpose)
Multi-millionaire business coach Jim Collins has helped to transform companies across the globe through the actions and philosophies...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Clarity + Guts + Stamina = Success
Never underestimate the revolution you can bring about by bravely addressing your corporate values. Ironic that they can be seen as the...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Values? No thanks, we've GOT values!
In considering who might need Larkenby, it would be too easy to limit it to organisations who don't yet have a set of declared values. We...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
How our own Ethos comes to life
A set of values is good, but it helps to explain them clearly and simply. We break ours down into a few sections: where and when you...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Why did I launch Larkenby?
Two reasons. Having brought a clear set of values and culture stemming from them into my brand communications agency, Spring, I am a...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Use the past, don’t stay there
The opening line of The Go Between, a romantic novel by LP Hartley popular in the 1950’s, is: “The past is another country, they do...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
ActiveEthos: the definitive glossary
In the world of corporate culture there are a lot of words that can feel interchangeable, or be overlooked. There are often very subtle...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Corporate Culture Champions: are you brave enough?
Over the course of Step One Active Ethos workshops, and in following up around them, one thing has become abundantly clear to me....
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
2021. Make it the year you lead with values.
Do you find challenging conversations difficult? Do you avoid them? That, my friend, is the danger zone: because what you let slide...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Feel values. Do culture.
You can talk about culture and values pretty interchangeably. But there is a difference. Values are things you feel in your belly. They...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Close your eyes and tell me your values
I'm serious! If you don't look them up, can you reel off your company values? Or do they slip your mind? Maybe you remember three out of...
Erika Clegg
- Jun 10, 2022
- 3 min
Gratitude: the single most important team behaviour
There are two types of people. People with gratitude, and people without it. To maintain a healthy organisation you need to populate it...
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