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  • How to create a WORK CULTURE to enable FLOW?

    How to create a WORK CULTURE to enable FLOW?

    Work Culture to enable Flow

    This insightful blogpost inspired from Flow, throws light as to how to nurture a work culture that will enable flow.

  • What is the SCIENTIFIC FORMULA of WORK CULTURE?

    The Components of Work Culture

    Watch this very insightful video from Simon Sinek wherein he explains the TWO most important aspects of work culture.

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-sinek_culture-values-behavior-lt-gen-george-activity-6955190064947597312-N_YW?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=ios_app

    This video is indeed illuminating and reduces the understanding of work culture to the following mathematical equation.

    Culture = Values + Behavior

    Leaders can build healthy work cultures keeping this aspect in mind.

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  • VALUES define WORK CULTURE, provided you do THIS..

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s great leadership quote –

    “For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It’s not “integrity,” it’s “always do the right thing.” It’s not “innovation,” it’s “look at the problem from a different angle.” Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea – we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.”

    Simon Sinek leadership quote

  • “Work life Balance” comes from “feeling safe” at work, this explains

    Adopted from the following great quote of Simon Sinek

    “Work-life balance] has nothing to do with the hours we work or the stress we suffer. It has to do with where we feel safe. If we feel safe at home, but we don’t feel safe at work, then we will suffer what we perceive to be a work-life imbalance.”

  • This highlights a common phenomenon in poor work environments

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

    “Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.”

  • The biggest problems creating a right work environment can solve

    Great organizations spend essentially no to very less energy in trying to align , motivating troops and managing change..

    Under the right kind of work environments nurtured by level 5 leaders in such organizations the problems of commitment , alignment , motivation and change largely take care of themselves..

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

  • This quote is a masterclass on “creating the perfect work culture”

    Adopted from the following great quote of Seth Godin..

    “Create a culture where peers inspire peers, in which each employee acts like a leader, pushing the culture forward. People like us do things like this. People like us, care.”

  • How do GREAT COMPANIES adhere to HEDGEHOG CONCEPT?

    Inspired from Jim Collins’s book Good To Great, the following insight reveal how great companies adhere to the Hedgehog concept & build a culture of discipline .

    “Build a culture full of people who take disciplined action within the three circles fanatically consistent with the Hedgehog concept..”

    This would mean the following:

    1. Build a culture around the idea of freedom and responsibility within a framework
    2. Fill the culture with self disciplined people who are willing to go to extreme lengths to fulfill their responsibilities

  • Characteristics of a work culture led by finite minded leaders

    Organizations led by finite minded leaders are characterized by work environments where people are pitted against one another to meet short term quarterly targets.

    These are leaders who give the utmost importance to performers who are high on IQ even if they are not team players and lack EQ.

    Such an environment is prone to ethical fading and is where people resort to unfair means and shortcuts to meet unfair targets.

    Ultimately such leaders who orchestrate such unhealthy work environments resort to layoffs by putting profit before people.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

  • Best quote that defines “work culture”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s inspirational quotes:

    “A CULTURE is STRONG when people work WITH each other FOR each other , NOT for THEMSELVES.”