Culture

As a leader working towards complex goals, you likely find yourself giving directions, explaining, checking for understanding, setting expectations, and the like.  You think you’re doing everything right and thus find it incomprehensible when things don’t quite go according to plan. Deadlines are slipping, quality is poor, and you wonder what happened. Your mind naturally...

I have worked in and for organizations that prioritize culture. They talk about it ceaselessly, spend millions codifying it, make it a priority in hiring and firing, and make consistently bold pronouncements about how culture eats strategy for breakfast. Culture is queen. I agree with them. They do this because they understand that culture is...

Your company culture is defined by the behavior you reward, tolerate, and punish. Talentism Founder and CEO Jeff Hunter talks to the Wall Street Journal about the hardline culture cues and commands coming from Twitter head Elon Musk. Elon Musk Takes a Hard Line on Quiet Quitters—and Anyone He Thinks Is Close The Wall Street...

The current talent market is full of contradictions. Candidates getting multiple offers while companies conduct sweeping layoffs. People “quiet quitting” in droves while there’s more opportunity than ever for flexibility. Yet one thing hasn’t changed: the mistaken belief that hiring “A-players” will solve everything. Steve Jobs famously insisted on hiring A-players. This philosophy had enormous...

You got five apes in a cage. You got a banana hanging by a string in the middle of the cage; you got some stairs going to the banana. Now pretty soon, one of those apes is going to go for the banana, and as soon as he hits the stairs you take a hose...