Jane Dutton is a faculty member at the Ross School of Business and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations (CPO). I’ve been preparing
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Pack Your Higher Purpose for the Long Haul
In a previous post about resilience, I shared how living by a higher purpose can increase resilience and success in life. Living by a higher
Commercial versus Existential Purpose
Atomic Object designs and builds custom software products for clients in nearly all industries. That’s our commercial purpose, and, after 20 years, we’re quite good
Pursuing Social Excellence through Co-located Work
As many organizations are currently considering post-covid work expectations, I thought others might find value in Robert Quinn’s January 2020 talk “Social Excellence: Detect It,
Keeping Sight of True North During a Crisis
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in early March 2020, it became clear to me that Atomic was going to be facing months of uncertainty,
A framework to define and describe organizational culture
Everyone knows how important culture is. The right culture is attractive to talent and gets you through internal challenges and external shocks. A toxic culture
Why should Atomic exist for 100 years?
Atomic has the goal of being the first 100-year-old software consultancy. In a business environment where software consultancies are succumbing to the ebb and flow
Atomic’s purpose: to be a company where work matters
We’ve said for the last six years that Atomic’s vision is to be a 100-year-old firm. Our vision has helped us make decisions and invest
Elevating & distributing “glue work” flows out of our core principles
Glue work is stuff that needs doing, but falls outside of a job description. It can be critically important, but isn’t any specific person’s responsibility.
The case for detailed time tracking, part 5 – Growth
How do you know the amount of work you can responsibly take on at the individual, team, or company level? Are you investing time in