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 […]
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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 Seahawk’s Super Bowl Winning Culture – Part One
SUPER BOWL SERIES | PART ONE | FUN IS A BY-PRODUCT NOT A GOAL After his team’s 43-8 trouncing in the recent Super Bowl by the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Bronco head coach John Fox commented, “We ran into a buzz saw.” Conversely Seattle Seahawk’s head coach Pete Carroll’s view was, “We just played the way we […]
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 […]
Gratefulness is a Core Leadership Attribute
In America every November we celebrate Thanksgiving. No matter the historical premise for this American holiday it has become a time when we place our attention on who and what makes us thankful. Research shows that gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Reflecting on what one is grateful for results in more […]
How to Change a Culture | The Follow Through | Part Three
In this continuing series on changing culture we’ve diagnosed, we’ve begun instilling a cure, now it’s time for one of the most critical elements to lasting culture change. SUSTAINABILITY One of the biggest challenges to creating and having genuine culture change is what we will call the sustainability issue. Anyone can yank the steering wheel […]
How To Change a Culture | The Diagnosis | Part One
Part one of a three part series. How to recognize a culture change is needed. The Sinking Ship An underperforming culture looks like anything in-between a sinking battered battleship to a shiny new Titanic. One has been through war; the other is fresh from the paint booth. Both are sinking despite how they look on […]
Three Quick Tips From Jack Hollis
These three things that Jack Hollis shared are from the Excellent Cultures radio show and podcast. You can listen to the streaming show in it’s entirety here: Engaging People Engagement comes from helping one another, not helping yourself. No person can make the end-all happen. You can control your attitude and your effort, the rest […]
A Sales Driven Company Doesn’t Have To Be Just About Profit
A Sales Driven Company Doesn’t Have To Be Just About Profit with Joe Shine, CFO Sheehy Auto Sales Culture Leaders meet Joe Shine, the CFO of the $900 million company Sheehy Auto Stores and recipient of the CFO of the Year Award by Atlanta Business Chronicle. From simple beginnings in 1965, Sheehy Ford began as […]
BIZ CULTURE TIPS: Peter Drucker
“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ […]
