Getting Your Shift Together: Making Sense of Organizational Culture and Change—Introducing Cultural Due Diligence(TM)

by P.J. Bouchard and Lizz Pellet

Whether we want it or not, change is inevitable. Yet corporate America seems ill prepared for it most of the time. The dirty secret of the business world's merger mania is that 75 percent of all mergers, acquisitions and general corporate change initiatives fail within the first three years. In Getting Your Shift Together: Making Sense of Organizational Culture and Change, P.J. Bouchard and Lizz Pellet wonder why such poor results are tolerated.

In the past ten years alone:

• More than half of all U.S. companies were restructured
• Several hundred thousand companies were "downsized"
• More than 100,000 firms were acquired and merged
• Nearly a million organizations sought bankruptcy protection in order to continue operating
• More than 500,000 others outright failed

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However, not all organizations are doomed to become statistics. In Getting Your Shift Together, Bouchard and Pellet introduce corporate America to Cultural Due Diligence(TM), a process to help leaders assess their organizations' culture and its ability to change. Being ready for change can boost both employee morale and the bottom line, Bouchard and Pellet say, and keep organizations off the scrap heap. Business leaders can't afford to ignore their advice.

What Others Are Saying

"Most organizational leaders are quite familiar with financial due diligence, yet ignore the also important Cultural Due Diligence(TM). Cardinal Stritch University wants its graduates to be able to envision the big picture that is the context for making business decisions in an ever-changing global economy. Getting Your Shift Together will assist our students with 'real world' applications for analyzing and describing the cultural context of their organizations."

—Sheila T. Isakson, an assistant professor at Cardinal Stritch University's College of Business and Management in Milwaukee explains why she uses Getting Your Shift Together in teaching Organizational Leadership, the last course in the Bachelor of Science in Management degree program at the school.

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