Culture Renovation, Kevin Oakes
Culture Renovation, Kevin Oakes
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Culture Renovation
18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company

Author: Kevin Oakes

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture—but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to "transform" a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation.

In Culture Renovation, Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world's top companies. In this book you'll find everything you need to rebuild your corporate culture with care and expertise, including three phases and detailed action steps for architecting the change you want to see; practical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companies; the traits of a healthy corporate culture; and proven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term success.

Oakes identifies eighteen proven leadership actions for turning any culture into an agile, resilient, and innovative high-performance organization. You'll learn how to best understand the culture in place today and set a new cultural path for decades to come; develop a cocreation mindset; identify influencers and blockers; ferret out skeptics and non-believers; measure, monitor, and report progress; and implement "next practices" in talent strategies to sustain the renovation.


About Kevin Oakes

Kevin Oakes, CEO and cofounder of i4cp, has been a pioneer in the human capital field for the last twenty-five years, and is an international keynote speaker on culture, talent management, leadership, innovation, diversity, metrics, and strategic learning in organizations. He founded and served as president of SumTotal Systems, one of the largest providers of talent and learning solutions in the world, a company originally founded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rita on July 12, 2021

Great, well structured and read book, putting the knowledge researched into actionable steps! Very much recommend it to any leaders, HR and non HR.......more

Goodreads review by Suhas on February 23, 2022

When Organizations try to excel the tendency is to infuse cutting edge products, get into niche areas, invest on future skills and talents. Quite often "Cultural" renovation not considered to be one of the key levers. Culture is left to evolve without deliberately putting the needed efforts. Organiz......more

Goodreads review by Jason on August 14, 2021

Definitely a must read on the topic of organizational culture. Refreshing, pragmatic, and yet, also contained smart ideas on ways to embed positive culture change. He provides an 18 step approach and covers a wide range of relevant concepts an employer would be wise to consider. I appreciated his vi......more

Goodreads review by Richard on May 29, 2021

Have you ever renovated something ─ like an antique clock, old car or a house? To successfully renovate it, you needed a manual or blueprints.  Kevin Oakes, head of the HR research firm The Institute for Corporate Productivity, used this analogy in his book, Culture Renovation, to describe how an org......more

Goodreads review by Steve on January 25, 2021

This book was Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 1/24, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet and Stevo's Novel Ideas. Seize and expand the competitive edge with a smart, well-managed culture “renovation.” Find more Business Books of the week on my Goodreads Listopia page......more