Practice Makes Culture: How Welcoming Elephants, Creating Ownership, and Facilitating Daily Practice Transform Organizations
Language: English
Published by IT Revolution, 2026
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- Title
- Practice Makes Culture: How Welcoming Elephants, Creating Ownership, and Facilitating Daily Practice Transform Organizations
- Author
- Hudson, Christine
- Publisher
- IT Revolution
- Publication year
- 2026
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- New
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 1966280203
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- 9781966280200
After decades of organizational transformation efforts, the failure rate remains stubbornly high: over 70%. What's missing? The human element.
In Practice Makes Culture, you'll discover why most transformations still fail and how to ensure yours succeeds by addressing what other approaches miss: the emotional dynamics, hidden narratives, and everyday behaviors that truly shape your organization.
This practical guide introduces a powerful framework centered on three critical focus areas:
- Elephants: Address the emotional aspects of change, recognize diverse perspectives, and tackle difficult conversations that most leaders avoid.
- Ownership: Create transformation that people actually want by ensuring those affected by change are the ones steering it.
- Practice: Transform meetings into powerful practice fields for cultural change through consistent, daily reinforcement of desired behaviors.
Whether you're helping your humans grapple with GenAI (everywhere), helping turn around a business or department, or building a learning organization, you'll learn how to create lasting change that delivers both better business results and happier humans. Filled with practical templates, facilitator guides, and real-world case studies, this book translates cutting-edge research into actionable practices you can implement immediately.
Don't settle for another failed transformation. Create a culture where continuous improvement and positive change become organizational habits--where your teams deliver with confidence, quality, and joy
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About the Author
Christine Hudson is a transformation strategist who bridges technology and human systems to create high-performing organizations where people thrive. As co-founder of The Welcome Elephant consultancy, she translates complex organizational challenges into practical, actionable change practices. With a background in enterprise technology, product development, and organizational change, Christine brings technical precision to the art of culture change. Her computer science and mathematics education (BS from Colorado State University) combined with over a decade of experience in helping large organizations transform helps her design transformation frameworks that work in real-world environments. A polyglot in both human and programming languages, Christine applies her multilingual mindset to help leadership teams communicate more effectively across organizational boundaries. Her facilitation work spans Fortune 500 companies to nonprofit boards, demonstrating her versatile approach to creating sustainable change. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, Christine's adventurous spirit--evidenced through sailing, climbing, and mountain sports--mirrors her fearless approach to guiding organizations through the challenging terrain of meaningful transformation
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