LinkedIn Weekly Culture Report 01.26.20

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the trends and most notable content related to culture management on LinkedIn. We're scouring the platform everyday to find posts about what's happening in the world of corporate culture and employee experience. This is what you need to know that happened last week.

Let's get to the highlights:

A Culture Champion & Leadership Legend Departs

Many senior executives and influential voices here on LinkedIn have posted tributes in the last few days after the death of Harvard Business Professor and best-selling author Clayton Christensen. Christensen's humble yet powerful words have prompted many leaders over the last two decades to question the way they measure success in their organizations and in their personal lives.

He was a champion of leaders making their organization's and family's cultures priorities.

His colleague at Harvard and former CEO of Medtronic, Bill George, was one of many posted short tributes after Christensen died from complications of cancer at the age of 67 this last week:

2020 Most Admired Companies Announced

Senior executives from Southwest Airlines to Caterpillar to Lockheed Martin to Disney posted this week on LinkedIn about their ranking on Fortune Magazine's Most Admired Companies List.

Here are the 2020 top 10 most admired companies in order:

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Disney, Berkshire Hathaway, Starbucks, Alphabet, JP Morgan Chase, Costco Wholesale, and Salesforce.

Without exception, everyone of those organizations is known for their culture. In fact here's what Fortune's research found: "the research finds the Most Admired Companies have agile, trustworthy, and inspiring leaders." While financial strength is critical to making it on this list it's secondary to quality of leader and strength of culture in determining what organizations are most admired by employees and customers.

Here's Fortune's post if you want to go to the link for more on the list:

Your Culture's Impact on Employee's Mental Health

Cigna turned heads with research it published this week about loneliness. CEO David Cordani got on LinkedIn and called loneliness "an epidemic."

I've been in organizations around the world in hundreds of meetings on culture and have never heard loneliness or mental health discussed. It will be interesting to see how much attention Cordani and Cigna are able to draw to this topic in the months and years ahead.

It caught the attention of Arianna Huffington as she was in Davos. She made a post to try to help executives focus on the part of the report that talks about how workplace culture's impact on loneliness.

Where Are Leaders Placing Their Bets in 2020?

We'll wrap up this week with a post made by Donna Morris, the CHRO of Adobe. She got on LinkedIn to share some research her company did where they asked senior leaders across multiple industries for their predictions and "biggest bets" going into 2020.

It's interesting to read through the quotes. Morris mentioned more attention on development and diversity as her predictions. We saw a good number of posts from CHROs and senior leaders about diversity initiatives or rankings this past week. We're certainly seeing both development and diversity increasingly coming up in our meetings about culture with organizations across the globe.

These are just a few of the posts about company culture that caught our attention this week. There are always too many to mention. We'll be back next week with another edition of the LinkedIn Weekly Culture Report!

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Russ Hill is host of the Decide to Lead podcast and a senior partner at Partners In Leadership. He is an executive coach helping leaders manage their culture to build accountability for game-changing results.