Inspired-Leadership and Organizational Culture:
FINDING THE COURAGE TO 'BE WHO YOU ARE'

On face value, most company leaders would say that they are being authentic in the organizational expression of their vision, mission and corporate culture. What else would they be?

Yet, year after year shareholders, employees, customers, and partners are required to change their behaviors based on initiatives and strategies extracted from external, 'trend of the moment' management craze — the word 'craze' being deliberately selected, and often an all-to-accurate descriptor.

The result is a rather significant gap between the professed vision, mission, and 'way', and the one that employees, customers, and communities actually experience. This gap, in turn, creates cynicism and an integrity problem that the people of the organization are increasingly aware of, no matter how surpressed within the organizational culture it is.

In this age of professed authenticity, it's time that companies examine who they are instead of, like managerial lemmings, following the latest string of business fads?

The full text of this article discusses what it means to 'be who you are', summarizes some of the benefits, and highlights seven practical strategies or approaches to bring organizational leadership and culture into authenticity and alignment.

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