Comments on: Neuroscience in Business: Being Smarter in the Downturn http://www.bestwork.biz/blog/?p=35 The BestWork® People Blog Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Marsha Shenk http://www.bestwork.biz/blog/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-5 Marsha Shenk Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:05:22 +0000 http://bestwork.biz/blog/?p=35#comment-5 Hi Tom, Behavior is at least as influenced by Culture as by Organizational structure. In this moment of change, leaders have an opportunity to shift their cultures. Tools for doing that? New forums in which people can participate in new questions; new standards for efficacy, with clear means of measuring performance; new interpretations of what constitutes excellence, with new rituals for celebrating it. We come to be the way we are via 350,000 generations of group cooperation. We are designed to be pickled in the brine of culture. Leaders have a huge opportunity to design new cultures - people are crying for it Hi Tom,

Behavior is at least as influenced by Culture as by Organizational structure. In this moment of change, leaders have an opportunity to shift their cultures.

Tools for doing that? New forums in which people can participate in new questions; new standards for efficacy, with clear means of measuring performance; new interpretations of what constitutes excellence, with new rituals for celebrating it.

We come to be the way we are via 350,000 generations of group cooperation. We are designed to be pickled in the brine of culture. Leaders have a huge opportunity to design new cultures – people are crying for it

]]> By: Tom Fabrizio http://www.bestwork.biz/blog/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-4 Tom Fabrizio Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:49:37 +0000 http://bestwork.biz/blog/?p=35#comment-4 What comes first, the chicken [the organizational structure], or the egg [a person's behavior]? Perhaps it's the wrong question. One affects the other so much - they become ONE. They can't be treated as separate. This is my big challenge... What comes first, the chicken [the organizational structure], or the egg [a person's behavior]? Perhaps it’s the wrong question. One affects the other so much – they become ONE. They can’t be treated as separate. This is my big challenge…

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