Category Archives: Organizational Culture

How to Have a Strategy for Change

Think of “strategy” as having a perspective, an agenda if you will, about how things could be better. When I’m helping a manager think about what those things are for a department in a more or less traditional hierarchy, I like to employ a kind of systems map that illuminates different aspects of the work […]

February 23, 2016 – 5:26 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Listening, Openness, Organizational Culture, Power, Transformation, Undiscussables | Comments (0)

Leadership Feedback, Leadership Wounds

In one way or another, leaders are always receiving feedback. Sometimes it is from the voiced reactions of people at a meeting they are guiding. Sometimes it is more formal, for example from a staff survey or 360 degree appraisal process. As a consultant and coach, I’ve noticed a fairly common pattern in the process […]

January 4, 2016 – 10:35 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Conflict, Consciousness, Grief, Organizational Culture, Reflective Leadership, Self-Knowledge, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (4)

The Work With No Name

The work with no name is from one angle just the humble work of humanizing our workplaces, our working civilization. It cannot have a name lest it go the way of all programs, destined to be judged by whether or not it makes money for some corporation. (This came up for me last week via […]

April 13, 2015 – 5:37 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Organizational Culture | Comments (9)

Soul-Making

Soul can be a difficult word when it is associated with a workplace. Work and business are the domain of measurement and management, of productivity, logic, structure, systems, strategies and alignments. Often these are things that have little obvious connection to the deeper stories of the people within the systems. Those hidden stories may contain […]

October 12, 2014 – 2:14 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Organizational Culture, Shadow | Comments (5)