Leadership: Culture building
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Building a team that stays: what great leaders actually do
Bill Gallagher
October 10, 2018
Culture building
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Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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- Stop running the company — your job is finding people smarter than you.
- Ask employees their life dream before telling them yours.
- Retention follows when people believe the company serves their mission too.
How to find, keep, and nurture creative talent in your company
Founders
September 3, 2018
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Why credentials matter less than passion and reading habits
- Naysayers kill creativity — force them to improve ideas instead
- Every great innovation was called impossible by experts first
How Ed Catmull built Pixar's creative culture over 20 years
Founders
August 20, 2018
Culture building
9
Founder interviews
8
- People beat ideas every time — chemistry matters more than talent.
- All Pixar films start terrible; candor is what makes them great.
- Protecting fragile new ideas from institutional pressure is a leader's job.
16 leadership activities to build connection and self-awareness
Noah Kagan
June 14, 2018
Communication
9
Culture building
8
Identity & self-belief
5
- Talking to yourself out loud for 10 minutes cuts through mental noise
- Repeated low-stakes vulnerability — not pep talks — builds high-trust teams
- Four leadership archetypes (Moses, Joshua, Miriam, Sarah) clarify who does what
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring for attitude: why undeveloped great teammates beat skilled bad ones
Noah Kagan
August 23, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
5
- The best hires are undeveloped people with great character, not top performers
- Skilled bad teammates are mercenaries — useful contractors, destructive as employees
- You can teach skills; you cannot teach someone to be a good teammate
Ten commandments of startup success from Reid Hoffman and Tim Ferriss
Masters of Scale
July 5, 2017
Culture building
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Hiring & recruitment
7
- Rejections are data — a squirmy no signals you're onto something real.
- Do things that don't scale first: hand-craft the experience for your first users.
- Move fast, but build stable infrastructure before speed breaks everything.
How Google built a culture of managed innovation chaos
Masters of Scale
June 7, 2017
Culture building
9
Management
7
Case studies
5
- Why tolerating insubordination is the secret to Google's success
- 20% time's hidden power: a check on management overreach
- Instincts are right 95% of the time; specific ideas only 25%
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Leading through scale: lessons from Sheryl Sandberg at Google and Facebook
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Management
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- Why your team's silence means you're already the bottleneck
- Hiring for roles that never existed before requires abandoning prior experience
- Mission is the one plan leaders must never break
Building a happier workforce through clear expectations and trust
Bill Gallagher
April 19, 2017
Culture building
9
Management
7
Communication
6
- Unclear expectations are the hidden root of most workplace unhappiness
- Drive-by management erodes trust faster than any perk can rebuild it
- Honest feedback only flows when leaders explicitly invite it
Using CliftonStrengths to develop yourself and your team
Bill Gallagher
March 26, 2017
Culture building
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Being well-rounded makes you average, not excellent.
- Talent — not IQ — is the real driver of performance.
- Team strength maps reveal hidden biases and hiring blind spots.
Keeping passion and values alive in your business
Bill Gallagher
January 18, 2017
Culture building
10
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- Seven ancient practices that keep company culture alive for millennia
- Intentional routines create freedom — checklists for takeoff, improvise in flight
- Passion is automatic when role, values, and strengths are aligned
How to keep purpose and passion alive as your business scales
Bill Gallagher
January 16, 2017
Culture building
9
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- Seven ancient practices that encode values into living company culture
- StrengthsFinder: putting people in roles that match their top strengths
- Why intentional night-before routines outperform morning motivation hacks
Building great teams by investing in people's growth
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Culture building
10
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- Overlooked candidates outperform star hires when given the right environment.
- Annual performance reviews are actively detrimental — here's what replaces them.
- Treating people as resources guarantees you extract far less than their potential.
How to build and scale company culture from day one
Bill Gallagher
December 30, 2016
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
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- Values employees can't remember won't shape how they behave
- A full-day onboarding on values before any real work begins
- Peer recognition tied to named values creates culture as language
Culture is a choice: using a painted picture to align your team
Cameron Herold
May 6, 2014
Culture building
10
Vision & mission
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- Culture is a deliberate choice, not an accident — Google vs Microsoft proves it
- A written 'Painted Picture' of your business three years out aligns people fast
- Your vision must repel the wrong people as strongly as it attracts the right ones