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Culture

A collection of 16 posts

Culture

Winning company culture

The horse was the dominant form of transportation for 5,000 years, and then in one generation, everything changed with the internal combustion engine. The point is, technological shifts don’t​ always happen

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Values-Driven Success

Our decisions have an opportunity to shape the world, for better or for worse. As leaders, we make a series of these decisions, and if every decision is about how much money we

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Make your core values count

Many companies create aspirational core values, but few get these right in a way that they make an impact. Here is how to up your core value game and make better decisions. One

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Danny Meyer's unconventional wisdom

Danny Meyer's real product isn’t food; it’s how his restaurants make you feel. And this is what he has scaled. Even before opening his first restaurant, Danny’s vast experience eating

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Culture

Building a customer-centric culture

Companies have been trying to adopt customer centricity for decades, and few have succeeded based on what customers say about them. Why do so many companies struggle to get customer centricity right? It's

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Dynamic core values

Core values shouldn't be set of promises that make the management team look good, they should be a set of real beliefs. Often, core values are a hype and serve no real value.

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Stop your best people from leaving

“We have a great culture.” We have all heard it. We have all said it. But what does that mean? Culture is often referred to as “the way things are done .” There are

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Leadership

Servant leadership

As a leader, you are useless overhead unless you’re bringing out the best in your team. Somehow, many leaders lose sight of this. There are many ways to deliver value, and one

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Leadership

Things leaders say

Being a leader in people-centric work cultures differs drastically from managers in toxic workplaces who bark out demands and use century-old tactics like fear and negative reinforcement to motivate. Words can be memorable

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Resilience

When in doubt, lead with a joke

Humor is an under-appreciated tool for engaging employees and building resilient cultures. Many leaders have to work at it. Leaders with humor can build stronger cultures, unleash more creativity, and even negotiate better

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Build a high-performance team

If you want to build a team of performers, build a team philosophy and culture designed to enable everyone who is part of it to excel: 1) Instead of leaving it up to

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Motivating employees

Every day, employees make decisions about whether or not to go the extra mile in ways that contribute to company's success. Therefore, a critical task for leaders is to motivate employees to engage

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Keep excitement high

To keep the excitement and high-morale associated with launching and growing a business, below are some important things for leaders to bear in mind to not hit a rough patch a few years

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Invest more in people

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” -Paul Krugman. Invest in wages, time and energy to reinvigorate productivity:   Wages - Higher investment in wages does not need

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

Saying nice things about others

Harness the power of saying nice things about others; it matters! Whether we realize it or not, we are constantly given small opportunities to build up or put down our coworkers in the

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Culture

High-performance culture

Fostering a high-performance culture isn't that difficult if leaders focus on fundamental things: 1) Having fun. 2) Fostering trust and transparency, especially in an early stage company where there is no room for

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
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