The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change: Creating a Workplace That Delivers, Grows, and Adapts

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Culture change is one of the greatest untapped sources of performance improvement in organizations. If you get the culture right, the results will follow. Leaders who focus on the conditions that produce success (the culture) stand a far better chance of delivering the outcomes they desire. But where do you start? In The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change, Siobhan McHale delivers a proven four-step process that demystifies what goes into a successful culture transformation and guides readers along a path of positive change. Whether you are seeking to grow your company’s good culture into a great one—or facing fundamental workplace culture challenges—this book will be an invaluable resource.

AUTHOR BIO

Siobhan McHale has worked across four continents, helping thousands of leaders to create more agile and productive workplaces. She also has been on the “inside” as the executive in charge of culture change in a series of large, multinational organizations. One of these inside jobs was a radical seven-year change initiative at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) Bank that transformed it from the lowest-performing bank in the country into one of the highest-performing and most admired banks in the world. Professor John Kotter used her work with ANZ as a Harvard Business School case study designed to teach MBA students about managing change.

The Culture Disruptor is a four-step model that anyone can use to transform workplace culture. The first step on the Culture Disruptor is to diagnose what is really going on.

The second step on The Culture Disruptor is reframe the roles, or see the work through a different lens.

The third step on The Culture Disruptor is to break the patterns.

The fourth step on The Culture Disruptor is to consolidate the gains.

Garry Ridge, Chief Executive Officer, WD-40 Company

“If you are a leader who wants to build an enduring company where people go to work, are happy, and deliver exceptional results, read this book. It is filled with Siobhan McHale’s ‘insider’ case studies and her groundbreaking four-step approach to culture change.”

Carolyn Taylor, Global Culture Change Pioneer and Author of bestselling Walking the Talk: Building a Culture for Success

“This book contains the most groundbreaking thinking on how to change workplace culture that I have seen in many years. Siobhan’s methods will be transformational to unlocking culture change efforts across the world. This is a highly practical methodology from someone who has actually been through the process from the inside.”

Richard Hames, Writer, Futurist, and Executive Director of the Centre for the Future

“Culture is often regarded as a mystery. Yet this Pandora’s box of myths and fallacies is critical to business performance. Through the expert eyes of Siobhan McHale, we clearly see how culture uniquely contributes to performance on every level. Whether you are a startup or an established international enterprise, you cannot afford to ignore this better, faster, easier way to enduring success.”

Richard Barrett, Founder of the Barrett Values Centre and the Academy for the Advancement of Human Values

“Much wise advice and vital information from a master of organizational culture change.”