Leadership: Culture building
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Adapt or Die: Building Business and Culture for a Borderless World
Cameron Herold
October 14, 2024
Culture building
10
Pivoting
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Fractional global hiring beats local full-time talent on cost and quality.
- Four culture pillars — vivid vision, values, purpose, BHAG — beat perks.
- CEO–COO partnership requires deliberate matching, not just filling a role.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find and work with the right COO for your company
Cameron Herold
October 7, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
7
Delegation
6
- The right COO is a personal match, not a universal role.
- Culture requires core values, purpose, BHAG, and people systems — not perks.
- Ignoring quiet financial warnings nearly bankrupted a $106M company.
How to scale a business: pricing, culture, and PR as growth levers
Cameron Herold
September 23, 2024
Culture building
8
Pricing strategy
7
PR & media
7
- Raising prices 40% on day one beats competing on cost
- Toxic high-performers damage culture more than low results do
- Earned media outperformed paid ads for 5,200 press stories
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Building a profitable team using four energy types
KeyPersonOfInfluence
September 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
7
Business operating systems
5
- Hire for natural energy alignment, not just skills or experience.
- Four suit energies map directly to CEO, sales, ops, and finance roles.
- Shared purpose — the Joker — is the glue that holds all four together.
David Novak on learning from failure and building culture at scale
Masters of Scale
September 12, 2024
Culture building
9
Case studies
7
Resilience & grit
5
- Why Crystal Pepsi failed: ignoring bottler feedback killed repeat purchase
- Cool Ranch Doritos came from the salad dressing aisle, not the snack aisle
- Publicly rewarding truth-tellers is what makes candour culturally safe
Start every meeting with good news to shift team energy
Bill Gallagher
September 10, 2024
- Meetings that skip wins make teams feel like they're always losing.
- Celebrate before problem-solving — even tiny wins count.
- Struggling to celebrate is a personal pattern worth fixing.
Proactive mental health as a corporate performance strategy
Bill Gallagher
September 4, 2024
Culture building
8
Work-life balance
6
Processes & SOPs
5
- Reactive EAPs fail — daily proactive engagement cuts burnout and turnover.
- Walgreens quadrupled adoption by embedding mental health into payroll clock-ins.
- Leaders who hide their own struggles undermine the culture they want to build.
How to drive impact and scale teams at hypergrowth companies
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 1, 2024
Management
9
Productivity & habits
7
Culture building
6
- Rise from ICPM to leading 1,000+ people by obsessing over company priorities and saying no relentlessly
- Use inquiry first, data, and willingness to challenge authority to drive decisions without formal power
- Introduce deliberate chaos, let non-critical fires burn, and prioritize people over org charts
How team collaboration shapes a culture of growth mindset
Coaching for Leaders
August 26, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
7
- Growth mindset is a continuum shaped by environment, not a fixed trait
- Internal competition — even well-intentioned — triggers fixed mindset in teams
- Cultures of growth outperform on innovation, revenue, and resilience
Seth Godin on significance, agency, and the limits of industrial productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 19, 2024
Culture building
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
6
- AI makes efficiency-based work obsolete — only unreplicable humans survive.
- 10,000 workers wanted respect and challenge, not pay or ease.
- Significance is always inconvenient; convenience is the race to the bottom.
Neurodiversity as a competitive edge in organizations
Coaching for Leaders
August 19, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
- 50% of employers openly admit they'd refuse to hire neurodivergent candidates
- JP Morgan's autistic employees were 140% more productive than neurotypical peers
- Universal design — flexibility as the default — benefits everyone, not just neurodivergent staff
Leadership as chief energizing officer: building a high-energy team culture
Cameron Herold
August 12, 2024
Culture building
10
Management
8
Communication
6
- Praise twice as often as you criticize — fill the jar before you withdraw
- Starbucks CEO spent 2 hours every Friday handwriting personalised thank-you notes
- Skip-level meetings and MBWA build the trust that makes honest feedback possible
Kindness as leadership strategy: lessons from Ashley Stewart's turnaround
Coaching for Leaders
August 12, 2024
Culture building
9
Case studies
8
Management
5
- Kindness isn't soft — it broke every Workers' Comp actuarial record
- Random acts of kindness are a resignation, not a system
- Stripping professional armor unlocked a twice-bankrupt company's turnaround
How Fastenal became a $38 billion company selling nuts and bolts
Founders
August 12, 2024
Culture building
9
Business operating systems
7
Case studies
6
- A commodity nuts-and-bolts seller became America's top-performing stock.
- Low costs fund better people — the flywheel that beats competitors for decades.
- Radical decentralisation: 3,400 stores each run like an independent business.
How to notice and change dysfunctional culture in your organization
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
10
Management
8
- Silence from your team means it's not safe, not that things are fine.
- Fix dysfunctional culture before layering on new initiatives.
- High performers cost more than leaders admit — do the full math.