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Every team has a culture, whether or not it has chosen one. Somewhere between its first meeting and its first difficult quarter, a set of agreements forms: who speaks first, whether disagreement is welcome, what happens to the person who admits a mistake. Few of these agreements are ever stated rather learned by watching what …
Last year, a coach I deeply respect told me a story I often keep going back to whenever the topic of culture comes up. For several years, she had worked with a founding CEO whose journey is the kind that gets told at start-up conferences. She bootstrapped the company from nothing and, over a decade, …
I have heard it in townhalls, written it in culture decks, and said it to my own team more times than I can count : ‘bring your WHOLE self to work’. For the better part of a decade, though, what it actually got read as was something soft: put a plant on your desk, mention …
