Organizational Culture

Reflections on compassion and organisational change — In this conversation, I am gaining Ajoy Datta’s perspectives on compassion in his work and research on organisations. Ajoy shares his perspectives and experiences around how we can turn towards the sources of stress in an organisational setting and explore them. What are the small things we can focus on…

Setting or changing an organization’s culture is an intensive job, especially if this change comes after the organization has existed for decades. And it all comes down to the company having either of two mindsets: · A fixed mindset can create a hostile environment causing stagnation in the organization. ·…

Spoiler Alert: It’s to do with culture. I really enjoyed my job. It was my jam. I told everyone about it. As a product person, the opportunity to go 0->1 with an app, backed by a big company with cash, with a solid engineering team and with a customer at…

On a project we’ve been working on (coming soon, be prepared) at Sunstone, we collaborated with a bunch of amazing people who are experts in marketing, organizational design and all content related. I’m the editor of this project (spoiler, yes, it might take the shape of a few ebooks), and…

Being highly productive and innovative when delivering our product or services is important. We need to periodically evaluate our performances and create continual improvements to our products and services. What’s more important is ensuring that our products or service can bring value to our customers. When organizations commit to customers’…

Our industry deserves a complete retrospective into the incidents behind the criminal case against Uber’s former Chief Security Officer. We need more than opinions about an individual’s guilt. Those who have been around long enough know that positive change is most efficient with a clear and blameless retrospective (1, 2)…

Data has been a hot topic for over a decade now. It took off with big data and machine learning coming to the forefront. There have been efforts across many organizations to make the best use of data. There have been several pieces of research that point to the failure…