Culture - Listening to Learn: Some Animals are more equal as others as Culture from the bottom Eats any AC & DC Strategy for breakfast

Kulcha - How an anonymous letter caused chaos at McKinsey

Angus Deaton - Nobel laureate economist savages his own profession as clueless and unethical

They say you should start as you mean to continue, and there could soon be fewer managerialist buzzwords and more frank questions permeating the corporate culture of the Australian Taxation Office if new commissioner of taxation Rob Heferen’s initial leadership note to staff is anything to go by.

Unlearning buzz words and corporate speak will not be easy for many … Orwell predicted how hard it would be for some SESes

Rob Heferen - New ATO boss wants staff to listen and learn

*Please call me Rob: Rob Heferen begins as new Tax Commissioner

Listening to Learn - Carolyn Coughlin and Jennifer Garvey Berger 

More listening to learn and less listening to win ...

Jennifer Garvey Berger believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. At a time when organizations are often forging the path rather than following the path of others, leadership is about creating the conditions for people to be their most creative, connected, intelligent selves.

Berger discerns five pernicious and pervasive "mind traps" to frame the book. These are: the desire for simple stories, our sense that we are right, our desire to get along with others in our group, our fixation with control, and our constant quest to protect and defend our egos. In addition to understanding why these natural impulses steer us wrong in a fast-moving world, leaders will get powerful questions and approaches that help them escape these patterns.

We are Trying to put some image of ourselves - polishing perfecting the image of ourselves Quest to be Best Version of Ourselves - We Are Trapped by What We are not What we are Next - The End of History

Two Good Eggs and Listeners to boot  Cllimbers of the Sydney Harbour Bridge 

"The more an idea is tied to your identity, the more you will ignore evidence it is false. To continue to grow and learn, you must be willing to update, expand, and edit your identity."

- James Clear

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

- Epicurus

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

- Kurt Vonnegut 

“Not till we are lost…do we begin to find ourselves.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.”

- George Bernard Shaw

Culture is like the wind. It is invisible; yet its effect can be seen and felt.

When you’re in a small boat, you can see who’s paddling hard and who’s looking around

A tree cannot become big & huge without its leaves & roots.

Treat employees like they make a difference, and they will.

Our secret weapon for building the best culture is open and honest feedback. 

~Jorge Paulo Lemann

There's no magic formula for great company culture. The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated.

 ~ Peter F. Drucker

 

“Just like your lawn, your culture is going to grow whether you are conscious of it or not. The question I ask people is, ‘Would you rather have weeds or a garden …? Because it’s up to you.”

~ | Brian Rollo, CultureTalk Certified Partner, Brian Rollo Consulting

“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.”

~ Daniel H. Pink, Author, What Successful People Know About Leadership / Dashing through the snow 

“Corporate Culture is a staunch defender of an organization’s status quo, even when status quo behavior is dead wrong for a company. So beware, even if you see your culture as virtuous. Strengths carried to an extreme become weaknesses −you can have too much of a good thing.”

~ Price Pritchett, Ph. D., Author, Lessons from 1,000 Deals

“Brand and culture are opposite sides of the same coin. Brand is the outward expression of what your company stands for and culture is the internal expression. They reinforce each other and there needs to be a consistent thread that binds them together.”

| JP Lacquer, CultureTalk Certified Partner