Description

A really fun, stimulating conversation about culture, and whether culture or vision is primary.

Recorded 12/6/23, includes:

• “That’s a scary thought…”
• “If I don’t notice I get in trouble”
• The world of Marx
• Where does your heart go?  Aaron did not pass out!
• Pauses feel interminable
• Cross-fertilization feels like part of your niche
• “There’s another word for fertilizer”
• The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas
• You’re keeping the spotlight on me
• A month is made up of 4 weeks and the weeks go very fast
• I don’t get away that easy?
• What are you most excited about for 2024?
• Planting all different kinds of seeds
• The weeds got taller than the corn!
• So, culture…was that a question?!
• Some provocative thoughts about culture
• “If I was going to boil culture down to one word…”
• Is the culture the goal, or is the culture a means to a bigger goal, or both/and?
• “Designing” cultures?  Why does that word feel wrong to you?
• Maxwell: Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
• It’s about relationships, feeling, and personality

• Outcomes come down to…why does it feel that way?
• Motivational mismatch
• Outcomes show you how to improve the culture
• The 9 elements of Speak Your Peace
• Posters on the wall - they’re just there…
• “I would speculate it doesn’t just stay on the wall”
• Culture is generative - an ongoing act of (co)creation
• How do you TRULY change a culture?
• Culture is a living document
• “Culture eats vision”
• Culture is neither top-down, nor bottom-up
• “The third bricklayer says I’m creating a place for people to worship the Lord”
• Boom!  There’s that culture/vision thing - do you make 4 by adding 2 and 2 or 3 and 1?
• A chicken-and-egg thing
• If you have a good vision but a bad culture, and vice versa…
• Part of a good culture is understanding the proper role of fun
• The problem with “fun”

• “That’s really just a bunch of friends!”
• Why Kwik Trip and Culver’s feels better than McDonald’s - can culture be systemized?
• “The customer doesn’t come first, the employee does.”
• Final thoughts about culture
• Culture is just caring about people
• I think culture is actually everything - it’s what we’re all looking for
• How some companies try to “design” culture, and cueing up a sequel!

Learn more about Todd at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://toddkuckkahn.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Learn more about Aaron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://aaronjmarx.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠