"Future Focused" offers a Playbook for Leaders to Unlock the Power of Culture in Today's Rapidly Changing Workplace
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"Future Focused" offers a Playbook for Leaders to Unlock the Power of Culture in Today's Rapidly Changing Workplace and Create More Successful, Strategic and Purposeful Companies
CHICAGO, Oct. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
-- New book co-authored by Heidrick & Struggles' Rose Gailey and Ian Johnston
offers insights on pivoting culture to prepare for the future amidst a
once-in-a-generation shift in work and office life
Released today, "Future Focused: Shape Your Culture. Shape Your Future." (
) examines how leaders from all types of organizations have used culture to
drive successful organizational change and deliver purposeful, sustained
performance. The book's release comes as the voices of employees take center
stage globally. "Future Focused" serves as a practical guide for business
leaders who are grappling with today's dramatic changes to work life brought on
by the pandemic and looking to sustain and drive culture through numerous
points of transformation.
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Building upon the book's core principles for shaping culture, leaders can learn
from the achievements of successful CEOs and reinvent culture to meet the
pandemic's myriad of forced changes, and provide steady, transparent and
future-focused leadership to deliver improved business outcomes. The book
highlights a number of successful company cultures through the lens of leading
inspirational CEOs, including those from Anthem, Aptiv, Helen of Troy, Jack in
the Box, Lumen, Yum Brands and more.
"Culture is the underpinning of great companies and supports performance during
unprecedented periods of uncertainty and volatility," said Krishnan
Rajagopalan, President and CEO, Heidrick & Struggles. "Today in the C-suite,
discussions on hybrid and virtual work policies are taking top priority as
leaders redefine what it means to be part of an organization in remote and
increasingly distributed settings. Values and mission, coalesced into a
meaningful purpose, are at the core of cultures that have helped companies
thrive both before and during the pandemic. This book offers sound best
practices built from more than four decades of experience to guide leaders as
they examine what the future will look like for their teams and workplaces, and
evolve their cultures and purpose to meet the unique needs of their
organizations."
Co-authored by Rose Gailey (
) and Ian Johnston (
), partners at Heidrick & Struggles and leading experts on organization
acceleration, culture shaping and transforming organizations, "Future Focused"
stresses that leaders who lay a solid cultural foundation, authentically commit
to a set of values, and define and depend on an inspiring purpose to build
companies will show more resilience and face less turmoil – and they will
continue to have that advantage no matter what the future holds. With
flexibility named as one of the fastest-rising job priorities in the U.S., and
younger generations of workers renegotiating the centrality of work and its
role in their personal lives, the authors also raise a sense of urgency for
companies to start focusing on culture now and provide a straightforward
framework to get started.
The new book offers four principles that highlight culture as an ecosystem,
impacting all stakeholders – from employees, to customers, to shareholders. The
principles define how to shape a thriving, high-performing culture in a healthy
ecosystem:
1. Thriving cultures require purposeful leadership.
2. Transformation is rooted in personal change.
3. Broad engagement is key for the culture to be lived.
4. Thriving into the future requires systemic alignment.
"We are at an important inflection point in the way workplaces define culture,"
commented Gailey. "More than ever, the way we are living and working today
requires empathetic leadership and the ability to listen with understanding and
provide a psychologically safe place for employees to voice concerns.
Additionally, as we learned from our 2021 global survey (
) of top CEOs regarding culture, leaders who link culture to strategy also
outperform their peers significantly – doubling their 3 year compound growth
rate for revenue. Culture, then serves to act not only as a catalyst to break
through uncertainty and stabilize an organization and engage employees, but
also to bolster financial performance."
In "Future Focused", Gailey and Johnston warn that failure to intentionally
shape culture opens the door to risk, while purposeful, future-focused cultures
secure mindsets and behaviors that deliver performance and minimize risk. CEOs
and executive leaders must make sure that culture is systemically "hardwired"
into the fabric of the organization's HR systems, quality and operational
excellence initiatives, and employee and customer experience to be sustainable.
"Communication is oxygen for organizations at all times, but most especially in
times of transition," stated Johnston. "Leaders who communicate openly,
honestly, vulnerably and consistently will enable employees to weather
uncertainty and move to action."
"Future Focused," published by Networlding, is available for purchase here (
).
About Heidrick & Struggles
Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership
advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and
consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted
leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready
leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in
executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and
development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand,
independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of
executive search more than 65 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated
talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one
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