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Three Mobile UK

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Three Mobile UK
This paper describes a four-year turnaround journey based on three core behaviours: taking responsibility, being open and honest, and keeping your word.
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SA Water

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SA Water
Learn how an Australian government organisation underwent a successful cultural
transformation which enabled it to address Australia’s water challenges with flexibility
and innovative thinking.
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Barclays Absa Acquisition

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Barclays Absa Acquisition
This white paper describes how Steve Lennon, from Walking the Talk’s Consulting Partner Arup, used the Walking the Talk methodology to help Barclays Bank in the U.K. and South Africa achieve a synergistic key acquisition 18 months faster than expected.
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The stages of a Major Change Process

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  • The stages of a Major Change Process

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Mergers and Acquisitions – emotions at work

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Building Cultures for Sustainability

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Culture: Asset or Liability? The role of a director.

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The Achievement Culture: Promise’s Promise’s

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Zappos Corporate Culture

Zappos, a US on-line retailer, has built its success based on extraordinary customer service.  Here, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos describes how he learnt from bad experiences he had early in his career, and built his company with crystal clear beliefs and principles.  Zappos has recently been acquired by Amazon.  Watch this space on how two great organisations manage their merger.

Leading by omission – Ricardo Semler

“Every one of us can send emails on Sunday night, but how many of us know how to go to the movies on Monday afternoon”? Asks Ricardo Semler, the CEO of Semco during this interesting seminar at MIT Sloan School of Management, he talks about the way Semco innovates by challenging the business formats that are basically legacies of military hierarchies, which neglect or deny the power of human intuition and democratic participation.  The best piece we found in this presentation was from the minute 26:20 to 40:27.