Book description
The fastest, easiest way to shift culture toward engagement and productivity
Change Your Space, Change Your Culture is a guide to transforming business by rethinking the workplace. Written by a team of trail-blazing leaders, this book reveals the secrets of companies that discovered the power of culture and space. This insightful guide reveals what companies lose by viewing office space as something to manage or minimize. With practical tips and implementation details, the book helps the reader see that the workspace is, in fact, a crucial driver of productivity and morale.
Change Your Space, Change Your Culture was born out of recent studies that expose truly outrageous "Oh, my God" realities:
More than 70 percent of the workforce either hates their job or they are just going through the motions.
Half of all office space is wasted.
Those shattering facts exist because office space is generally regarded as "overhead" or "sunk cost." Most buildings today clearly communicate the low priority placed on people-friendly design. Poor workforce engagement is baked into the culture. This book provides guidance on turning this around, by rethinking and reshaping space to align with the way people work. Specifically, this book moves from the high-altitude view down to the details on how to:
Discover the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to shift culture
Add square footage by using space more effectively
Boost employee engagement and vitality by the creative use of space
Learn how space can become a powerful productivity tool
We all know that design, space, and flow have a powerful effect on the human psyche. Our homes, museums, sports arenas, places of worship, and even airport terminals reveal that. Environment can inspire dread or enthusiasm, distraction or focus, collaboration or isolation. That's why the office must be designed to inspire the desired culture and workflow - if it's not properly designed, no program, training or rules will be effective over time. Change Your Space, Change Your Culture is the practical guide to office space, the foundation of an engaging culture.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Change Your Space, Change Your Culture
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword: David Radcliffe
- Foreword: Mark Layman
- Foreword: Matthew R. Haworth
- Introduction: The From/To Formula
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Part I: Why the Workplace Stopped Working
- Chapter 1: Are You Ready to Sail the North Atlantic?
- Chapter 2: The $1 Trillion Black Hole
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Chapter 3: Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Wicked Problems
- Fast and Furious!
- From Gutenberg to Google
- The Gutenberg Fallout
- In Search of Innovation: The Holy Grail
- Why the Strategies and Tools for Innovation Aren't Working
- Culture Is the Constraint Leaders Overlook
- Recalibrating Expectations
- A Brief History of the Office
- Changing the Culture
- The Moneyball Approach to the Construction Industry
- Space as the Catalyst
- Safe-Fail Leadership for Managing Wicked Problems
- Success!
- Crossing the Divide
- Part II: What You Must Know about the Workplace That's Coming
- Part III: A New View of Space and Culture
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Part IV: Change Your Space—Transform Your Culture
- Chapter 9: The Untapped Potential of the Workplace
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Chapter 10: They Did It, You Can Too
- Future Travelers
- Cummins Inc. and Columbus, Indiana—Engagement with Stakeholders
- Google—Engagement by Design
- W. L. Gore & Associates—The Human Scale of Engagement
- CBRE—Smaller and Smarter Leads to Engagement
- GSA—Moving a Battleship through Engagement
- Red Hat—Open-Source Engagement
- Zappos—Scaling Engagement through Culture
- Cousins—Engagement through Integration
- Haworth HQ Renew—The Human Connection of Engagement
- Balfour Beatty, Washington, DC—Engaging the Process
- Chapter 11: Break Out of Insanity
- Epilogue: The Case4Space Approach
- Appendix A: Case4Space Core Team
- Appendix B: Image Recap of Key Events and Summit Sketch Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and Growth
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118937815
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