{"id":18989,"date":"2020-02-05T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18989"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:43:25","slug":"camosun-business-study-group-column-how-to-create-culture-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/02\/05\/camosun-business-study-group-column-how-to-create-culture-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Business Study Group column: How to create culture, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, we talked about culture, its importance, and what it really means to a company. Do we hire from the outside or promote from within? The thought is if we can find someone who is a good fit, they\u2019ll be successful and the business will carry on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NEXUS-30-10-PAGE-ONE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NEXUS-30-10-PAGE-ONE-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NEXUS-30-10-PAGE-ONE-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NEXUS-30-10-PAGE-ONE.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the book <i>Built to Last<\/i> by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, the authors look at a dozen or so successful companies, versus their not-so-successful counterparts. One company, RJ Reynolds, acquired Nabisco and replaced the CEO with Ross Johnson. While Johnson was a capable employee in the past, his vision of what Nabisco should be didn\u2019t align to what Nabisco\u2019s vision had been prior to the merger, and the company opened itself to eventually be bought out by RJ Reynolds\u2019 competitor Philip Morris.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not every company that promotes from within is successful. There does need to be grooming, and one way you can know if you\u2019re on the right track is to ask yourself, \u201cIf tomorrow morning the CEO\/boss\/manager was hit by a bus, would the company be able to continue?\u201d If the answer is yes, then there is a clearly defined culture inside the organization. If no, the next question is, \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Camosun Business Study Group is focused on students helping students to succeed both in and outside of the classroom. For news and events, follow them at <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/cambussg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com\/cambussg<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, we talked about culture, its importance, and what it really means to a company. Do we hire from the outside or promote from within? The thought is if we can find someone who is a good fit, they\u2019ll be successful and the business will carry on. In the book Built to Last by Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-february-5-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18990,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989\/revisions\/18990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}