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 […]
Category: Teamwork
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 […]
Seahawks Super Bowl Winning Culture – Part Four
SUPER BOWL SERIES | PART FOUR | TEAM & PROPER GOAL ORIENTATION There’s no doubt we here at Excellent Cultures have been excited about the Seahawks Super Bowl win. It’s been something we’ve waited for all of our lives! But the culture that brought the Lombardi trophy to Seattle isn’t new here, in fact it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
