Leadership: Culture building
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Nine lies about work: why human uniqueness is a feature, not a bug
Bill Gallagher
July 29, 2020
Management
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Culture building
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- Fear of failure causes leaders to suppress the individuality that drives performance.
- Cascaded goals don't change behaviour — only self-set goals unlock real contribution.
- Build on people's strengths; excellence is where we are most productively unfinished.
How Atlassian redesigned meetings and culture for distributed work
How I Work
July 8, 2020
Culture building
9
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Make caring for each other an explicit meeting agenda item.
- One dial-in rule from Trello creates a true level playing field.
- Productivity metrics built for factories fail knowledge workers.
Building employee connection into leadership decision-making
Cameron Herold
July 7, 2020
Culture building
7
Management
6
- A head of people makes empathy a structural role, not a personality trait.
- Skip-level meetings give CEOs unfiltered access to frontline teams.
- Eliminating offices forces leaders into daily proximity with their people.
How business leaders can respond to social unrest, racism, and compounded crisis
Bill Gallagher
June 17, 2020
Communication
8
Culture building
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- Silence in a crisis is a choice — and an expensive one for leaders
- Diverse boards and teams consistently outperform homogeneous ones
- Empathy is a learnable skill that changes how leaders listen and act
How to restart company culture and remove the wrong people
Cameron Herold
May 26, 2020
Culture building
9
Management
7
- Fire all cultural misfits on the same day — cut deep, cut once.
- Survivor guilt is real but fades within two to four weeks.
- Presence beats policy: sit with the team, ask how they feel.
How Angela Ahrendts united Apple's global retail team
Masters of Scale
May 19, 2020
Culture building
9
Communication
7
Management
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- Weekly unedited iPhone videos built trust with 70,000 retail employees
- Reframing stores as a community OS unlocked a new leadership mandate
- Giving managers local ownership turned employees into mission advocates
Crisis leadership: why people matter most in a downturn
Bill Gallagher
May 17, 2020
Management
9
Culture building
7
Communication
6
- Your crisis behavior is leadership judgment day — act accordingly
- MBWA still works remotely: call people, ask about their lives
- Tiny courtesies and genuine listening outlast any clever strategy
How Angela Ahrendts united global teams at Burberry and Apple
Masters of Scale
May 12, 2020
Culture building
9
Communication
7
Founder interviews
6
- A logo alone won't align a team — mission and human contact will.
- Confronting resistant executives directly unlocked Burberry's double-digit growth.
- An unedited iPhone video beat 70,000-person email for building trust.
How core values shape hiring, decisions, and brand identity
Rick Fawcett - Expert EOS Implementer
April 24, 2020
Culture building
8
Business operating systems
5
- Your brand becomes whatever value you consistently hire against
- Core values make delegation safer by aligning decisions automatically
- EOS helps you identify the values already driving your best people
Netflix's Reed Hastings on building a culture that scales
Masters of Scale
February 6, 2020
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Business operating systems
5
- Over-processing every mistake builds a workforce of rule-followers, not thinkers
- Netflix's public Culture Deck filters out wrong-fit candidates before they apply
- The keeper test: would your manager fight to keep you if you tried to leave?
Building culture and operational discipline in a scaling business
Bill Gallagher
February 5, 2020
Culture building
10
Processes & SOPs
8
Cash flow management
6
- Cascading daily huddles — not just frontline ones — build real culture.
- Too much capital removes spending discipline and amplifies bad decisions.
- Manual scoreboard updates force critical thinking that automation kills.
Bill Walsh's philosophy on building organizational culture through excellence
Founders
January 12, 2020
Culture building
10
Resilience & grit
6
Management
5
- Build culture by setting a high standard of performance before chasing results.
- Innovation comes from necessity and studying how others solve problems differently.
- Mastery requires relentless daily execution of fundamentals, not destination thinking.
How to set and sustain a cultural drumbeat as a leader
Masters of Scale
November 15, 2019
Culture building
9
Management
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- Repeat your message until you're sick of hearing it.
- Compassion in leadership drives innovation and performance, not softness.
- Reward the how, not just the what, or culture drifts.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Amantha Imber answers 25 questions on work, leadership, and innovation
How I Work
October 30, 2019
Hiring & recruitment
8
Deep work & focus
8
Culture building
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- Busy is a time-allocation myth, not a capacity problem.
- Peer mentoring groups outperform formal mentors for founders.
- Moving from CEO to maker took three years of planning.
Building startup culture in the first 20 employees
Y Combinator
August 29, 2019
Culture building
10
Hiring & recruitment
7
Vision & mission
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- Your first 20 employees are your cultural DNA — get them wrong and it compounds.
- Values must be outward-facing to give employees real guardrails on hard decisions.
- You cannot retrofit diversity or culture at 100 people — the window is now.