In Episode 046 of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast: Mark Whitmore and David Quick have a discussion on Culture Index, Vistage, and hiring. Part 1 of 2.
Here is a link for Culture Index to take a survey: https://surveys.cultureindex.com/s/69AC7B0000/26716
0:00 Intro
1:18 How did you get into coaching?
6:21 Book reference - It’s Your Ship by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
11:38 Talk about your involvement with Vistage https://www.vistage.com
12:36 Shoutout to Jean Lauterbach with Vistage
15:13 Reference to Junto or the Leather Apron - Ben Franklin
15:59 Book Reference - Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
16:53 Book reference - Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything by Hermann Simon
17:30 Book Reference - Think Again Adam Grant
19:51 Book reference - Culture Code by Dan Coyle
20:55 Introduction to Culture Index https://www.cultureindex.com
24:57 What Culture Index does really well…
28:05 What does Culture Index measure?
7 key work-related traits
30:02 Assessment scores, looks like a curved shape
4 Groups:
Along with 19 Patterns ranging from things like Daredevil to Traditionalist
31:42 Explain the dots on the graph
34:37 How to take the assessment
Start with no-cost demo, takes 10 minutes to take
https://surveys.cultureindex.com/s/69AC7B0000/26716
41:11 How does Culture Index compare to some of the other big assessment tools out there?
43:49 What are some keys to seeing this as some neat new tool to something that is valuable?
48:45 What was your journey like with a second in command?
51:06 The architect
55:05 Every assessment profile has value and every profile has tax
56:07 “There are no solutions, only trade-offs” - Thomas Sowell
58:20 Heroic and anti-heroic traits
59:08 It seems that most of the assessments don’t take about character
1:03:30 Why do entrepreneurs have a hard time implementing some of these tools?
1:08:41 Good resources for the hiring process…
1:12:08 Book references - The Advantage and Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
1:12:56 “We’re all willing to sweep floors”
** Credits**
Music - Once in a lifetime by the Talking Heads
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