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Tag: Work culture

  • Components of Work Culture

    Build a Work Culture based on trust takes a lot of doing.

    It starts by creating a space in which people feel comfortable and safe to be themselves.

    Work Culture has the following two primary components:

    1. Value system
    2. behavior

    Realizing these two components are the building blocks of a company work culture can help an infinite minded leader create a trust oriented and high performing work culture.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

  • How to create a work environment with “Intrinsically Motivated” people

    The need of the hour is intrinsically motivated Type I people who are adept at doing “right brain” oriented work in the best possible.

    The following three principles when adopted in a workplace ensures the nurturing of such intrinsically motivated people.

    1. Create an environment where people feel good to participate and feel engaged
    2. Give people more AUTONOMY
    3. Keep the system as open as possible.

    Adopted from Daniel Pink’s book Drive

  • Why Companies with a strong sense of WHY , are top performers?

    Companies with a STRONG SENSE of WHY are able to INSPIRE their EMPLOYEES.

    These employees are more PRODUCTIVE and INNOVATIVE and the feeling they bring to WORK attracts other people eager to work there as well.

    When people inside a company know WHY they come to work , people outside the company are vastly more likely to understand WHY the company is so special.In such a work culture all employees NEED EACH OTHER.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Start With Why

  • How to create a “work culture” where truth is “heard”?

    Creating such a culture involves four basic practices:

    1) Leading with questions , not answers

    2) Engage in dialogue and debate not coercion

    3) Conduct autopsies without blame

    4) Build RED FLAG mechanisms that TURN information into the information that cannot be ignored

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

  • Weak culture vs Strong Culture

    A culture is STRONG when people work with each other , FOR each other.

    As opposed to this , a culture is WEAK when people work AGAINST each other for themselves”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek great leadership quotes

  • Why “feeling safe” is our basic instinct

    “We would not have work life balance until we feel safe in the place that we live and feel safe in the place that we work.”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great quotes

  • Importance of a good environment

    “Without great environments , even great ideas are useless”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great quotes

  • When does a “thriving” culture emerge?

    “When the things you say and the things you do are in alignment with what you actually believe , a thriving culture emerges.”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great quotes.

  • Building a strong work culture

    “A culture is strong when people work with each other , for each other.

    A culture is weak when people work against each other , for themselves.”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great quotes

  • The two most important components of culture

    Culture has two main components:

    1. Values
    2. Behavior

    To build a culture based on trust satisfying these two components needs a lot of work and risk on the part of an infinite minded leader.

    Adopted from the book “The Infinite Game”