Organizational Culture
In dealing with organizational culture, I believe everyone has to first understand what it means. To me it means how we do things within our organization and what we are displaying to our students. Also this means living up the culture we have developed, but if something about the organizational culture is not right changes must be made. I also see the importance of working together as teams, unfortunately this doesn't always happen because individual departments may be looking to set goals specific to their departments. Because of this they are seeking out what is good for them but maybe not what's good for the organization as a whole.
Kathleen,
Good point. What is a trait of a good leader that one may not see in a manager?
Jeffrey Schillinger
I think that's the difference between management and leadership. Managers are in charge simply because of their position on the organizational chart. Leaders can be found throughout the organization at many levels. When managers aren't effective leaders, the culture suffers
Good points. A strong culture requires good leadership. When leadership operates in a command and control fashion, it can easily drain the "positiveness" from the organization.
I believe what you state is true. I also feel though that when individual players turn away from the team, the team has a duty to bring them back to the game, maybe through training or just showing you care. Sometimes it may work, other times it might take longer to get the results of a full, balanced team.
