Simple Insights…The question is not whether you are creating culture. The question is what kind of culture your leadership is creating.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Culture
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Simple Insights…Build the place you would want someone you love to work.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…A culture becomes unhealthy when leaders continually treat Will problems as though they were merely Skill problems.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Applause is cultural fertilizer.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Peace is not pretending disagreement does not exist. Trust is not everyone agreeing. Unity is not uniformity.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…A healthy culture is not one in which everyone gets what he wants.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Your personality is an instrument of your leadership. It is not the definition of healthy culture.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…One of the easiest mistakes a new leader can make is remodeling the organization around his personality and calling it cultural improvement.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…You do not get a culturally neutral first ninety days.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…History deserves understanding. Dysfunction does not deserve preservation.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…You inherited a culture you did not create, carried by people whose history you did not live. Honor both before deciding what needs to change.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…A new leader sees the expression of a culture long before he understands its cause.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Different is not necessarily dysfunctional.
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Simple Insights…A new leader should not confuse the authority to change a culture with the wisdom to change it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Culture is leadership multiplied.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…What happens once may be an exception. What happens repeatedly becomes an expectation. What becomes expected eventually becomes cultural.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Every repeated exception eventually becomes an unwritten policy.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Culture is not primarily what an organization says it values. Culture is what an organization repeatedly demonstrates that it values.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…What leaders permit repeatedly, they eventually establish culturally.
~ Leadership Masterworks