How Leaders Champion Culture: Six Essential Lessons

The bad news about “core” cultural values: In most organizations, employees say leaders don’t walk the talk. Learn from six well-known leaders who know how to do better.

Most companies espouse an official corporate culture. We studied nearly 700 large corporations and more than 8 in 10 published core values on their websites. Core values are ubiquitous — but unfortunately, in most organizations, core values are also irrelevant. When we analyzed more than 1 million online job reviews, we discovered virtually no correlation between the values the companies emphasized and how highly employees rated them on these supposed core values.

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How Leaders Champion Culture: Six Essential Lessons

Learn from six leaders whose records on building a values-driven culture stand out compared with their peers’.