CHAPTER 14

Organizational Needs for a Healthy Culture

Culture requires nourishment.

Your culture is alive. And just like you, it requires nourishment and TLC. How well you intend to it will determine how alive and healthy it feels. What you focus on and measure will influence the results it creates. Who you are and how you show up will become a part of its DNA, fast.

Because as we all well know, we’re contagious.

Culture rarely happens overnight. A conversation here, an event there, a broken agreement, a huge act of contribution, a leadership misstep, a major client win, a rumor, a great hire; good and bad cultural contagions all happen quickly, often quietly, and then build upon one another. As leader, how you celebrate and navigate will determine ...

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