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Lululemon, Example of Breakthrough Organizational Culture

Lululemon – A Stellar Example of Break-Through Organizational Culture

Christine Day, the CEO of Lululemon, gave a compelling account at the Toronto Board of Trade of how Lululemon uses culture as a core competitive advantage. It is woven into the fabric of every interaction and decision, not a bunch of meaningless posters on the wall.

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Transformation? Leaders Go First!

Let us consider an organization that wants to transform itself. i.e. to change in structure and character.

A simple view would be as follows:

Relationship between Relatedness, Responsibility, and Accountability

Relatedness trumps Responsibility, Accountability

Relatedness is the heart of high-performing teams and organizations. As stated in the Agile Manifesto, focus on “Individuals and Interactions” is essential. How we relate to ourselves and others is central to creating and maintaining effective and valuable systems. There are many mental frames that are used to discuss organizational culture and performance.

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The Power of Vulnerability

Brene Brown had an amazing discovery: The people who have love and belonging believe they are worthy of love and belonging.

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Understand Shame to get to Root-Cause in Your Life

In this post I share a book that has changed my life in deep and profound way: Brene Brown's "I Thought it Was Just Me (but it isn't)".

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Why We Need to Care About Empathy

There is a really great RSA animated video explaining Jeremy Rifkin’s idea of the Empathic Civilization. He argues that we are neurologically wired for human relatedness and empathy through mirror neurons: we are soft-wired for sociability, attachment, affection and companionship – we have a deep drive for belonging.

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Empathy Workshop – Results and Instructions

This past Fall I delivered a training module on Empathy as part of a day long communication and teamwork training. In this post, I will give you step by step instructions on running an empathy workshop as well as share some interesting results from my session.

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How to Express Empathy – Avoid the Traps!

The biggest challenge with Empathy is that we block our connection with another person's emotions as a self-protection activity. Once we overcome this we can really connect with people.

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Lululemon – A Stellar Example of Break-Through Organizational Culture

Transformation? Leaders Go First!

Relatedness trumps Responsibility, Accountability

The Power of Vulnerability

Understand Shame to get to Root-Cause in Your Life

Why We Need to Care About Empathy

Empathy Workshop – Results and Instructions

How to Express Empathy – Avoid the Traps!

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