Thoughts on Culture

Philosophy interlude! JS Mill on why your team must be able to disagree with you

Philosophy interlude! JS Mill on why your team must be able to disagree with you

Just back from my extended holiday (hence the lack of posts this week!) to pick up my eldest son’s GCSE results. The new new GCSE system (I was O levels!).…

Interview for Values fit, not Cultural alignment

Do you interview for cultural fit? I did. And I was wrong. I’ve interviewed well over 1000 people. As the person responsible for my team (whether in my own company,…
The “me” economy

The “me” economy

This graph says it all. We have become far more focussed on ourselves than on others, and the world is worse for it. I’ve used Google’s Ngram to pull together…

Culture radiates to all your business relationships

There was little greater testament of the culture we built than the annual London to Paris or Amsterdam bike rides that we organised. Every year, a group of us from…

Don’t let your clients’ lack of ethics or inefficiency endanger your business

Cash flow, revenue, sales. These are the oxygen for our businesses. They’re not what creates the value, but we’d be unable to create value without them. Which is why it’s…

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