Written By Steve Gandara One of the primary challenges is keeping your best employees. Better wages and benefits are being dangled at excellent employees around every corner. In our four decades of serving startups to Fortune 5’s we’ve learned a number of insights from both the industry leaders as well as those who struggle to […]
Category: Employee Engagement
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 [...]
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.
The Seahawks Super Bowl Winning Culture – Part Three
SUPER BOWL SERIES | PART THREE | POSITIVE COMPETITION & RELATIONSHIPS Part two of this Super Bowl Culture series highlighted the importance of humility and confidence, as well as the destructiveness of arrogance. Whether you’ve been converted as a Hawks fan and joined the cult of the 12th MAN is not our greatest concern, we […]
The Seahawks Super Bowl Winning Culture – Part Two
SUPER BOWL SERIES | PART TWO | CONFIDENCE VS. ARROGANCE As you’ve read in our last two blog posts, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that we’ve seen so much in the Seattle Seahawks this year that translate to the leadership and business cultures we work with. For one, they knew they had something special in the Seattle […]
12th Man Culture Rings LOUD & CLEAR
12th MAN CULTURE Seattle is known to house many world-renowned corporate hubs; Amazon, Boeing, Starbucks, Microsoft, Google, Paccar, Costco, Nordstrom, etc. and now the Seattle Seahawks? Of course if you’re a resident of the Pacific Northwest you may have already included the Seahawks on your list of epic Washingtonian organizations. The rest of the world […]
