{"id":2983,"date":"2013-06-04T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:02:17","slug":"many-ceos-see-culture-as-their-highest-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-business-transformation-consultants\/many-ceos-see-culture-as-their-highest-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Many CEOs see culture as their highest priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/businesstransformationmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37\" alt=\"businesstransformationmini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/businesstransformationmini.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many CEOs see culture as their highest priority: the primary vehicle for establishing their legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"sb-date\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/strategy_and_leadership\"><\/a><!--more--><strong>Extract from strategy+business &#8211; Jon Katzenbach and DeAnne Aguirre:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>It is striking to see how many Increasing nbr of CEOs see their most important responsibility as being the leader of the company\u2019s culture. According to Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, \u201cCulture is your company\u2019s number one asset.\u201d Her counterpart at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has said, \u201cEverything I do is a reinforcement or not of what we want to have happen culturally.\u201d In another typical remark from the\u00a0C-suite, Starbucks Corporation CEO Howard Schultz has written that \u201cso much of what Starbucks achieved was because of [its employees] and the culture they fostered.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Researchers such as former Harvard Business School professors John Kotter and James Heskett have also found consistent correlation between robust, engaged cultures and high-performance business results (as described in their book, Corporate Culture and Performance [Free Press, 1992]). But most business leaders don\u2019t need that evidence; they\u2019ve seen plenty of correlation in their own workplace every day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>More &#8230;<\/strong> <a title=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/article\/00179?gko=6912e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/article\/00179?gko=6912e\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/article\/00179?gko=6912e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a92013 Booz &amp; Company Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many CEOs see culture as their highest priority: the primary vehicle for establishing their legacy. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[40,43,41,42,94,95,20,18,19,110,111,83,86,84,85,114,115,29,27,28,30,116,117,36,39,37,38,101,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}