
An excellent blog post on company/organisation culture from Fast Company
Culture is a balanced blend of human psychology, attitudes, actions, and beliefs that combined create either pleasure or pain, serious momentum or miserable stagnation. A strong culture flourishes with a clear set of values and norms that actively guide the way a company operates. Employees are actively and passionately engaged in the business, operating from a sense of confidence and empowerment rather than navigating their days through miserably extensive procedures and mind-numbing bureaucracy. Performance-oriented cultures possess statistically better financial growth, with high employee involvement, strong internal communication, and an acceptance of a healthy level of risk-taking in order to achieve new levels of innovation.
Read in full: Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company.



LivingWisdom.co.nz Redesign
The Living Wisdom site redesign has gone live.
We've been working with David and Rosemary Riddell - and around their hectic schedule - on a redesign of their original site launched back in 1997!
The new site is powered by WordPress which puts site owners in the driving seat with the ability, after a little training, to add and update content from the comfort of their own computer.
The basic site went live today, with an online shop and some other features to come in the near future.
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