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Quantum Edge services are devoted to facilitating corporate unity. We develop a company's capacity to help its communities-of-interest talk to each other and to create a caring, high-performing culture that is flexible to change.
A start up president in telecommunications
was about to enter a volatile urban market against a competitor
with a substantial head start. His leadership team declared they
would build the most complex cellular system to date in half the
time ever attempted. Knowing this pace could be dangerous, the
team also declared for a culture that would nurture people's spirits
and shepherd their families.
Quantum Edge was invited to coach the leader and his executive
team. The principles of Aikido, the martial art of peaceful reconciliation, were made integral to the company's core values
from the beginning. As a result, intuitive leadership, strategic flexibility,
relational harmony and the practice of inner mastery became key
skills for the executive circle and all the employees.
The whole industry was shocked when the team met their extraordinary build-out deadline. They shocked their competitor as well when, using Aikido as a marketing strategy, they captured untapped distribution channels and opened their doors with 70% of marketshare. And not a family was lost.
The
articulation of a company's culture is essential in clarifying its
identity and thus ensuring its ability to master change. As a living
system, the company thrives through a network of healthy relationships
with its environment. Ultimately, it is this dynamic set of relationships
with the company's employees, customers, owners, and community that
defines its culture.
The cultural covenant answers these questions: Who are we? What
is our mission, our vision? What are our values and principles?
What is our learning contract? And, how will we measure our behavior
regarding these agreements?
The challenge is, how consciously, how intentionally can this inevitable
process be guided? Ideally, representatives of a whole organization
and its surrounding ecology participate in an ongoing community
dialogue that consciously creates and periodically revitalizes the
company's cultural covenant.
Whoever participates in the cultural development of an organization
or attempts to lead it, will need to bring a global view of this
whole "system of systems" and its needs to their deliberations.
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