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June 2025

You're Being Watched! How Leaders Embed Organizational Culture


Over decades of culture-building work, one truth remains: leaders sustain culture through their behavior. Leaders - your staff is watching you for clues on how to fit in and what success looks like because, whether you know it or not, you’re modeling it.


Leaders embed and reinforce cultural messages in many ways but sometimes violate their intentions with their own behavior.


In this article, I share 5 key Dos and Don'ts for building and sustaining culture.


Avoid These Business Succession Planning Mistakes

It’s not uncommon for CEOs and business owners to put off succession planning for a later time. After all, they’re busy with putting out fires or crafting a strategic plan for the next five years. In such cases, thinking about succession options takes a back seat to more immediate concerns, with the notion that a decision can be made later, in a more predictable manner.


Except for when it can't. Think incapacitating illness, sudden death, business-related scandal, changes in owner's personal life...you get the picture.


Don’t wait until the last minute to start put a succession plan in place. Here are critical mistakes to avoid:


See these tips and others from The Alternative Board blog.

Did you know?



Canadians wanted to rename their Northwest Territories "Bob"


The remains of the inventor of the Pringles potato chips can are in a Pringles can


Shakespeare's parents and children were likely illiterate


The Titanic almost experienced a collision days before it sank (almost hit the SS City of New York)


There's an active volcano in Colorado (last lava flow was 4200 years ago but 1 eruption in 10,000 years qualifies as "active")




source - bestlifeonline.com

Check out my recent article,

Customer Complaints - From the Business Owner's Point of View

available at www.kodyne.com.


Mark Komen

Kodyne, Inc.

“If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some.”


Benjamin Franklin

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Former President/COO

ISC Companies

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I recently served on an evaluation team for the

The Performance Excellence Network. Our client for this engagement was a Minnesota state agency.


PEN is the sponsoring organization for the regional Malcolm Baldrige program which establishes criteria and evaluates organizations on the path to performance excellence. I have been a volunteer evaluator for the program for the last 12 years.


For more information on PEN and Baldrige, click the link above to visit the website.

SInce 2019, 5 businesses I have worked with have sold successfully!

How did I help these businesses get acquired? Contact me to learn more at mark@kodyne.com or visit my website www.kodyne.com.

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