Written By Gareth Best At Excellent Cultures, we are privileged to serve some great companies like Lynden Transport. We’re so pleased to have been chosen to help them transform their Good Culture into a Great Culture. Lynden Transport is an Alaska-based company with roots that run deep in the state. More than 60 years ago, […]
Category: Business Culture
The Magic of Setting Bold Goals
A Tribute to Fred DeLuca, an Amazing Entrepreneur By Steve Gandara The world lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs this past week. Fred DeLuca, Co-Founder of the Subway Empire passed on September 14th after his battle with Leukemia. The 17-year-old student who opened a “healthy-fare” sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, grew the now global chain […]
7 Keys to Creating the Best Work Environment (Infographic)
Offering employees generous salaries might make you a popular boss in the short term, but research shows that what workers really want far extends beyond the usual job incentives. Keeping employees happy and productive requires frequent and open communication, regular recognition of achievements, and constructive feedback. In short, employees are human beings and should be […]
Clayton Christensen | Harvard Business School
Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful.Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School Test Your Culture [...]
Stop Setting New Year’s Resolutions
Why do we as individuals spend so much time making New Year’s resolutions only see them fade away in few short weeks? Why do our businesses spend so much effort and money developing systems and strategies only to find that many go by the wayside time after time? It could be that we’ve failed to […]
Relax, It’s a Holiday
FIVE BENEFITS OF RELAXING As you no doubt have time off with family and friends over this Independence Day weekend, make sure to actually kick back and relax. Having a holiday is about meditating, being grateful, recouping, restoring energy, vision, and drive. Not just for your future work, but you current personal life. Your family […]
People are Opportunities not Interruptions
TOP TIPS IN RELATIONSHIP RESOURCING PEOPLE ARE OPPORTUNITIES NOT INTERRUPTIONS The greater the leadership role, the less time there seems to be for people. The constant emails, phone calls, meetings, planning meetings about the meetings. If you haven’t already realized it, the leadership role you thought you were born for is often not what it […]
Top Down Leadership Limitations & How to Overcome Them
The top-down approach to leadership is based on post industrial revolution and pre-Vietnam era military or Captain of Industry models of barking orders to underlings. It can go something like this: “I’m in charge here, and the sooner you figure that out the better!” While this perhaps may be an effective form of leadership in […]
The Number One Leadership Hangup – Top Down Attitude
Every one of us has a default mode of leadership. That default mode is top-down. We naturally fall into the trap of this form of leadership for a few reasons. The natural self prefers to dominate others and to try to amass power that can be held over other people. Leadership, by nature, seems to […]
Steve Gandara on Rainmakers TV
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is the mantra of Excellent Cultures. Steve Gandara explains how companies that pay close attention to the culture of their operations do much better for all stakeholders. Rainmakers Tv on PBS.
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