Browsing: Building healthy culture

• A healthy culture can triple output, new study shows.
• Shared values are at the core of corporate success. 
• Healthy culture attracts top talent.

A healthy work culture can triple a corporate venture’s returns by defining underlying beliefs, focusing on leadership, and modeling and celebrating desired behavior. The premis is made in a research report by Markus Berger-de León, a senior research partner from Berlin, German.

In the research paper, co-authored by Maria Ocampo, the scholars point out that; “It’s easy for a start-up culture to survive in a new corporate venture that comprises just a handful of like-minded people. But when corporate ventures grow to hundreds or even thousands of people, the culture can break down.”

To avoid this outcome, corporate leaders can and should systematically build and maintain a healthy culture that takes the unique corporate context into account. “The cost of not doing so can be …