A really fun, stimulating conversation about culture, and whether culture or vision is primary.
Recorded 12/6/23, includes:
- “That’s a scary thought…”
- “If I don’t notice I get in trouble”
- The world of Marx
- Where does your heart go? Aaron did not pass out!
- Pauses feel interminable
- Cross-fertilization feels like part of your niche
- “There’s another word for fertilizer”
- The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas
- You’re keeping the spotlight on me
- A month is made up of 4 weeks and the weeks go very fast
- I don’t get away that easy?
- What are you most excited about for 2024?
- Planting all different kinds of seeds
- The weeds got taller than the corn!
- So, culture…was that a question?!
- Some provocative thoughts about culture
- “If I was going to boil culture down to one word…”
- Is the culture the goal, or is the culture a means to a bigger goal, or both/and?
- “Designing” cultures? Why does that word feel wrong to you?
- Maxwell: Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
- It’s about relationships, feeling, and personality
- Outcomes come down to…why does it feel that way?
- Motivational mismatch
- Outcomes show you how to improve the culture
- The 9 elements of Speak Your Peace
- Posters on the wall - they’re just there…
- “I would speculate it doesn’t just stay on the wall”
- Culture is generative - an ongoing act of (co)creation
- How do you TRULY change a culture?
- Culture is a living document
- “Culture eats vision”
- Culture is neither top-down, nor bottom-up
- “The third bricklayer says I’m creating a place for people to worship the Lord”
- Boom! There’s that culture/vision thing - do you make 4 by adding 2 and 2 or 3 and 1?
- A chicken-and-egg thing
- If you have a good vision but a bad culture, and vice versa…
- Part of a good culture is understanding the proper role of fun
- The problem with “fun”
- “That’s really just a bunch of friends!”
- Why Kwik Trip and Culver’s feels better than McDonald’s - can culture be systemized?
- “The customer doesn’t come first, the employee does.”
- Final thoughts about culture
- Culture is just caring about people
- I think culture is actually everything - it’s what we’re all looking for
- How some companies try to “design” culture, and cueing up a sequel!
Learn more about Todd at https://toddkuckkahn.com/, on Facebook, or LinkedIn
Learn more about Aaron at https://aaronjmarx.com/, on Facebook, or LinkedIn
