Change…

Change has to be fundamental to a company’s culture, or there is no way it can survive.

– Tobias Lutke

Values…

Values determine culture,

Culture determines behaviour,

Behaviour determines outcomes.

– Rohan Dredge

Everyone…

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t

– Bill Nye

If you’re…

If you’re doing something outside of dominant culture, there’s not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

– Ava Duvernay

Overcoming…

Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organisational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic National Bank of New York. He noticed a piece of paper that a co-worker had stapled to his cubicle wall. It read:

‘The six phases of a project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Rewards for the uninvolved’

Dattner writes: ‘I have yet to come across a more accurate description of how most dramas play out in our working lives.’
Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – But Some Do

We…

We have a culture where we are incredibly self critical, we don’t get comfortable with our success.

– Mark Parker

Culture…

Culture is the sum of change that has gone before. The good and the bad; the accepted, the derided; the planned and the unintentional.

– Paradigms of Leadership

Culture…

Culture is the expression of how we overcome adversity, how we make ourselves accountable

– Paradigms of Leadership

The way…

The way you sustain and improve upon a culture is by fostering a sense of gratitude for what is best about it. You celebrate the good in your story while putting the bad in the correct context.

– Jonah Goldberg

I never…

I never dreamed about success; I worked for it

– Estee Lauder