Workplace Culture Conflicts

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Are you at odds with your company’s culture? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Alicia Tillman, the CMO of SAP. They talk through what to do when your company celebrates one kind of worker and ignores others, everyone seems to fit in but you, or a hard-charging culture is hurting performance and employee morale.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.8	Today we're talking about difficult workplace cultures with Alicia Tillman.
0:36.9	She's the global chief marketing officer of SAP.
0:40.3	Alicia, thanks for coming in the show.
0:41.9	Thanks so much for having me today.
0:43.7	So Alicia, as a top officer at a big multinational, how much time do you spend thinking about your company's culture?
0:50.2	I would say it's the majority of my time.
0:52.7	It's interesting because I would expect that from a chief talent officer, CHRO, but you're the CMO.
0:58.5	So it's just as important for you?
1:00.8	It is.
1:01.5	And honestly, any leader of any function of a company that isn't thinking about their culture, then I'm not sure that they're focused
1:14.1	on the right things.
1:15.1	How so?
1:16.1	People are absolutely the lifeblood of our company, and I need a team of people who
1:21.3	are motivated and inspired. I see being a steward and being an architect of our culture, something that I need to do if I actually want to get the things on my job description accomplished.
1:37.4	First question.
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