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Ron Ricci

Ron Ricci is Founder and CEO of The Culture Platform (previously Transparency Imperative), the only software platform that measures how engaged leaders and managers are with their employees and culture. His company's research-based data and process empower organizations to improve the likelihood of employees to recommend where they work. Earlier in his career, Ron specialized in helping CEOs and companies tell their stories. He has worked with CEOs like Michael Dell, Eric Schmidt, John Warnock and Carol Bartz. He also spent 20 years at Cisco, including a decade as a direct report to CEO, John Chambers. Ron has authored several business books: Momentum, published by Harvard Business School Publishing, and The Collaboration Imperative, which shared the best practices Cisco teams used to work better together.
Picture of Ron Ricci

Ron Ricci

Ron Ricci is Founder and CEO of The Culture Platform (previously Transparency Imperative), the only software platform that measures how engaged leaders and managers are with their employees and culture. His company's research-based data and process empower organizations to improve the likelihood of employees to recommend where they work. Earlier in his career, Ron specialized in helping CEOs and companies tell their stories. He has worked with CEOs like Michael Dell, Eric Schmidt, John Warnock and Carol Bartz. He also spent 20 years at Cisco, including a decade as a direct report to CEO, John Chambers. Ron has authored several business books: Momentum, published by Harvard Business School Publishing, and The Collaboration Imperative, which shared the best practices Cisco teams used to work better together.
Why Manager Feedback is the Best Form of Workforce Planning

Why Manager Feedback is the Best Form of Workforce Planning

Sponsored by The Culture Platform “Get some perspective.” That’s the best advice I ever received as a manager. And I took it to heart, because during my 20 years as a C-Suite leader at Cisco, the only time I received formal feedback was when I asked for it. My experience isn’t uncommon. Most organizations treat feedback as a bottom-up process — primarily in the form of performance evaluations for individual contributors. In fact, performance reviews are now the highest priority among HR professionals, reflecting today’s drive to “put the right butts in the right seats.” I wish this emphasis on performance evaluations

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What Would Your Culture Map Reveal?

What Would Your Culture Map Reveal?

Sponsored by The Culture Platform What makes maps so special is they tell you exactly where to find places you want to visit. Wouldn’t it be incredible if every organization had a culture map? Wouldn’t it be even better if that culture map worked like Google or Apple Maps? Anyone could easily search to find organizations whose cultural values are clearly marked on the map, and get directions to those companies. What a useful tool that would be. The “Why, What, and How” of Culture I think enough has been said about the “why” of culture and its role in organizational

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Rethinking the manager's role: Focusing on employee career growth is more effective than focusing on employee engagement. Here's why...

Rethinking The Manager’s Role: Here’s How to Get Better Results

Sponsored by The Culture Platform At some point in the last 20 years, companies started to believe employee engagement should define a manager’s role. And looking back, this conclusion made some sense. After all, managers are the organizational layer between leaders and people on teams. So why not embrace this as a framework for managerial effectiveness? How The Engagement Expectation Began The shift to engagement as the center of a manager’s role coincided with the arrival of tech-savvy millennials and the promise of HR software to power the so-called engagement revolution. It sounded good in theory. But it has largely been

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Why is Employee Engagement Upside Down?

Why Employee Engagement is Upside Down

Leaders and managers frequently refer to the famous Albert Einstein quote when something in their organizations isn’t working after repeated efforts. I wonder what Einstein would say about employee engagement? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. For two decades, the benchmark of benchmarks for employee engagement is Gallup, a world-class research organization. Gallup research shows that, over the past 10 years, the percentage of engaged employees has fluctuated. From a low of 30% to a high of 36%. Much ado was made about a slight uptick in engagement before the

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