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Community Directors Intelligence October 2018
Want to survive? Cultivate your culture By Matthew Schulz, editor
In this issue
Organisational culture, we all know, eats strategy for breakfast. It’s also been known to snack on policies and regulations, even on leadership. If your organisation’s culture is toxic, parachuting in a new leader can only do so much to fix the problems. But if your culture is healthy and positive, you can achieve great things.
2 Patrick Moriarty: Culture starts at the board table
Right now we’re seeing evidence of cultural failure behind many of the crises facing banks, political parties, government agencies, statutory authorities, big companies, schools, police, emergency services, sporting clubs, and any number of big and small companies.
6 Conference wrap: Aiming higher
The symptoms and results of cultural failure include unchecked bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, unsafe work practices, fraud and exploitation.
16 Our Community: Our Manifesto
We’re here to help you build a healthy, positive culture, because we know a positive culture can drive greater productivity, collaboration, success in achieving goals, and satisfaction among members, workers and board members alike. Inside, we’ve drawn dozens of lessons on culture from the recent Community Directors Conference – don’t miss the story of Greening Australia’s extraordinary cultural transformation, or sector leader Susan Pascoe’s blueprint for setting the cultural tone in your organisation. We also examine whistleblowing laws and not-for-profit training; our legal partners Moores help you to avoid scandal in your An enterprise of: organisation; and ICDA executive director Patrick Moriarty offers up tips for conducting a simple cultural review.
3 Directors’ help: Culture resources 4 Denis Moriarty: Culture the key
8 Susan Pascoe: A new NFP era 10 Greening Australia: A case study 14 Legal threats: Avoiding scandal
18 Video: What's a leading culture? 19 Creating capacity: NFP investment
This is an extract of the October 2018 edition of Community 24 Whistleblowing: Laws 'imminent' Directors Intelligence. 27 Lucy Doing data better ToBernholz: read this and more from our series, become 30 Best treasurers: Awards announced a member of the Institute of Community 32 Your pitch: Attract more support Directors Australia 35 Board trouble: Removal options now. 21 Foundations: Funding for leaders
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