Breaking The Silent Rules

- Horizontal organizational culture - the new values that Korean corporations should pursueA large part of Korean companies' problems derives from their vertical corporate culture. The faster we recognize this and improve it, the better we can heighten our global competitiveness. This book examines the current status of Korean corporate culture.- The columns on Korean corporate culture that appeared in The Korea TimesThe author, who conducts trainings and consultings for large companies in Korea, has contributed columns to The Korea Times for the past year that diagnose the current status of Korean companies and provide a direction for them. He is finally publishing a book that collects many of the columns in one place, in addition to new short essays. Together, they will answer the question: where should Korean corporations go?
About the Author: Kim Jongnam is the founding CEO of META (Management Empowerment Training in Asia). His specialties lie in organizational culture, leadership, change management, performance management, facilitation skills, and organizational development. He has 20 years of experience in the fields of inter-company negotiations, sales management, labor relations, corporate training and business management. He is particularly strong in diagnosing and resolving corporate issues in terms of diverse perspectives such as performance management, leadership, business impact, and organizational change. He has experiences in dealing with some of the largest corporations in Korea, such as Samsung Electronics, Lotte Group, Hyundai Group, Hanwha Group, LG, and many others. Within his client companies, he has worked with employees in a wide range of positions, from new hires to CEOs. Kim is passionate about how to change corporate culture in Northeast Asia, which is well-known for its hierarchical culture, and has written related columns for The Korea Times, as well as two books, Organizations Without Meetings and Breaking the Silent Rules. He is preparing to publish his third book, which focuses on how to change a top-down culture to a flat culture, in late 2017. He will work for Lotte Group as an advisory professor in the field of organizational culture in the latter half of 2017. His responsibilities will include giving lectures, helping to conduct research, and consulting. He created a business relationship with Dr. Daniel Denison, an professor emeritus at the business school of IMD in Switzerland and will be closely working together to change Korean corporate culture from top-down to horizontal through consulting, education and contributions to newspaper companies. Kim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Organizational Development, with the highest GPA in his year. His thesis, which explored the current level of alignment between executive coaching and leadership development, received the award for best thesis. He also earned certifications from the Practitioner Program of Organizational Development and Organizational Change at the University of Pennsylvania and in Human Resources Management at Cornell University. Email: metaconsulting2015@gmail.com www.imeta.co.kr c.p.:82-10-4580-5553