For HR leaders, having a solid working relationship with senior management or the executive in your organisation is critical. Being able to work together as a 'united front' is often the key to progressing important HR and organisational matters. 

HR's efforts to build strategies and programs to create an engaged and productive workforce can all be undone by the slightest inkling of a toxic work culture. 

Should you consider these micro-behaviours as a personal foible or a ticking time bomb?

If you want to jumpstart cultural change in your organisation, you need to create and cross the Rubicon.