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CULTIVATE THE CULTURE
If you want a great party, invite great people.
—MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
Bestselling author of First, Break All the Rules(Episode #305, The Learning Leader Show)
THE ESSENCE OF CULTURE
Culture is an intangible, hard-to-define term, especially within a business. Do an informal poll of your colleagues, and you will probably get as many definitions as the number of people you asked. In my experience, culture is the combined essence of the people in the organization. Culture is not the Ping-Pong tables, or the color of the walls, or free snacks. It’s the collective energy of the people on the team, in the organization, and within the business. The way we actually interact—the social system—results from the culture created by the ...
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