Leadership: Culture building
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11 Leadership Lessons on Patience, EQ, and Embracing Change
GaryVee
April 17, 2024
Management
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Culture building
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Resilience & grit
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- Patience without fear is the most underrated ingredient in building something lasting.
- EQ is now a prerequisite for leadership — IQ alone no longer works.
- Defaulting to 'no' on new technology is how companies go out of business.
How to score your company culture using the Culture Checkup
EOS Worldwide
April 16, 2024
Culture building
9
Processes & SOPs
5
- Two scores — intentionality and healthy — map your culture type
- High intentionality, low healthy means command and control culture
- All culture progress starts by telling the truth about today
Heart-centered leadership: moving from scarcity and fear to love
EOS Worldwide
April 16, 2024
Culture building
8
Communication
6
- Love is a verb — concrete actions, not warm feelings
- Biologically wired for fear; leaders must actively shift to abundance
- Performative care backfires — authenticity is the only version that works
GitLab's culture of transparency, short toes, and remote work at scale
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
April 14, 2024
Culture building
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Business operating systems
7
- Why posting your team meetings publicly turns viewers into contributors
- Short toes: separate your identity from your work to kill organisational friction
- How GitLab built a platform by going wide first, then ruthlessly deep
Relationships, culture, and the second in command: lessons from decades of entrepreneurship
Cameron Herold
April 8, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Management
6
- Caring about employees' bucket lists, not birthdays, drives company growth.
- A vivid vision filters hiring: video pitches replace resume stacks.
- Hire a second in command only after mapping what drains you vs. fuels you.
How CEOs can energise teams through gratitude, presence, and praise
Cameron Herold
March 25, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
5
- Praise twice for every criticism or new project you assign.
- Your state before the meeting determines the energy inside it.
- Every business area lead's most important team is the whole company.
David Ogilvy's eight habits for building a creative company culture
Founders
March 24, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
5
- Divine discontent: permanent mild dissatisfaction drives all creative excellence.
- Fear, politeness, and bureaucracy are the three habits that kill great work.
- Dogged persistence — not genius — separates good work from great work.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Why even top executive hires fail without proper onboarding and fit
Cameron Herold
March 23, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
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- Abdicating instead of delegating turned a star hire into a failure
- The right COO depends on company stage, not just credentials
- Most founders have never been trained in the basics of hiring
How genuine employee care drives productivity and company growth
Cameron Herold
March 8, 2024
Culture building
9
Remote teams
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- Happy employees accept more work without burning out or pushing back
- A fully remote company built elite culture years before COVID by ignoring physical space
- Knowing someone's dreams matters more than knowing their birthday
Employee obsession as the real driver of business growth
Cameron Herold
February 26, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Delegation
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- Employee happiness outranks customers and revenue as your top priority
- Flip the org chart: CEO at bottom, frontline staff at top
- CEO's real title is chief energising officer, not executive officer
How Netflix builds and sustains a culture of high performance
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
February 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
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- Talent density is a prerequisite, not a goal — everything else depends on it.
- The Keeper Test replaces performance reviews with ongoing honest accountability.
- Freedom and responsibility only work when talent density is already high.
Workplace relationship policies: what to include and how to build one
HR Party of One
February 8, 2024
Culture building
8
Compliance & regulation
6
- Banning office dating drives relationships underground, not away
- Supervisor–direct report relationships need disclosure and possible reassignment
- A 7-step process for drafting and rolling out a relationship policy
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to attract top talent with polarizing job postings and vivid vision
Cameron Herold
February 7, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
8
Processes & SOPs
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- Require a video application to cut 200 resumes down to 9
- A vivid vision makes culture a self-selecting hiring magnet
- Core values only work if breaking them is a fireable offense
How Atlassian builds teams, gets buy-in, and launches new products
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
February 4, 2024
Culture building
9
Communication
8
Business operating systems
6
- Fear, not work, is the opposite of play — and kills bold ideas
- Buy-in is a journey of early loops, not a single pitch moment
- Atlassian's five-stage gate model keeps new products lean until proven
Caring for people and balancing roles drives business success
Cameron Herold
January 15, 2024
Culture building
8
Work-life balance
7
Management
6
- Employees go through walls for leaders who genuinely care about them
- The COO's job is to excel where the CEO is weakest
- Your kids' description of you is the real measure of success