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 […]
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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 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 […]
10 Steps to Guarantee Your Goal Success in 2014
Why Don’t New Year’s Resolutions Stick?: 10 Steps to Guarantee Your Goal Success in 2014 1. SEARCH THE HEART Find your heart before you set any goals. Heart-felt goals get achieved, head goals are just an exercise in thinking. 2. CLARIFY YOUR VALUES Clarify and prioritize your top 5 or 6 values in life in […]
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 Cure | Part Two
The Cure You’ve read part one of this two part blog series and realized you’ve got culture challenges within your organization if you employ human beings. When confronted with a patient, every doctor is going to do as much testing as possible to learn about and diagnose the problem that may be going on in […]
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 […]
