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Adapting to the Loss of Office Osmosis: How Hybrid Team Managers Can Succeed

Managers can't rely on office osmosis in a hybrid working world

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HYBRID WORK

The Challenge of Hybrid Work Friction

Hybrid Work Friction is the gap between optimal work in ideal working conditions in the office and the actual performance of a hybrid team. 

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HYBRID WORK

Using Documentation to Overcome Hybrid Work Friction

In a hybrid work environment, where communication can be more challenging, effective documentation is crucial for teams to stay aligned, productive, and successful.

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Scale

Tackling the L&D Leader’s Hybrid Work Challenge

The shift to hybrid work has brought about several new challenges for L&D leaders, one of the main challenges being upgrading the managers' hybrid work and leadership capabilities. This is harder than it sounds.

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Be A Great Hybrid Team Manager

We are starting to understand what it truly means to manage a hybrid team

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Early stage

Might you be feeling burn out too?

Meetings: the burn out solution

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Why wonderful meetings make an amazing culture

Meetings are one of the most critical, yet overlooked areas of company culture

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The Challenges That Come With Transparency

Considerations when providing open access to information.

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100% Proven Strategy to Improve Organizational Culture in a Hybrid Work Environment

Building a discipline around collaboration is going to be crucial to developing a productive hybrid operating model and culture.

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Hybrid Work Leadership - Why The Doers Shine & The Talkers Don't

In-office leadership is very different from hybrid and remote work leadership

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Want To Know How The Pandemic Changed Your Company Culture?

Finding the balance between empathy and performance

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Scale

Your Hybrid Work Solution - Online Course Coming Soon

Hybrid work is too important to not have a plan

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Do People Shape Culture Or Does The Culture Shape The People?

It depends...

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9 Hybrid Work Challenges Every Leader Must Face

Leaders are going to have to rethink how they lead - here's why

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Why culture development is now a top 3 leadership priority

You can't ignore your culture any longer

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12 leadership tips for building an effective hybrid work culture.

As we progress towards the post-pandemic world of hybrid work, it is critical that business leaders understand that the future of work requires an operating system reboot.

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Announcements

The Culture of Things Podcast

A podcast about the culture of remote work with Brendan Rogers

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Growth stage

What type of CEO are you when it comes to company culture?

There are 5 types of CEO when it comes to company culture, but only one you should aspire to be.

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Cool content

How to implement a 'hybrid work' culture for your team

Wondering how to implement a hybrid office culture? Luckily I've researched it for my new book, and spoken to leaders who are already excelling at it, so I've pulled together a process for how to implement a hybrid office.

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Cool content

The Butt Naked CEO Webinar

CEOs relied on their office space to develop their company’s culture, and now they’re finding it’s all falling apart remotely.

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How 165 Startups Are Adapting To Work-From-Home

How leaders are adapting to forced remote working

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Cool content

Cracking The Code Of Remote Working: Lessons From The Future Of Work

Building and managing remote teams isn't easy. Andreas Klinger the Head of Remote for AnegelList shares lessons learned.

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Growth stage

How To Create A Website With The X Factor: The SalesLoft Example

Your website should do more than attract customers. Learn how SalesLoft use their website to help win the war for talent

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Scale

What Boeing Has Taught Us About Not Neglecting Company Culture

How Boeing dropped the ball and transformed their culture into a liability

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What You Can Learn From The Facebook Culture Crisis?

How Mark Zuckerberg lost control of his company's culture

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Cool content

Why You Must Foster Trust If You Are To Create A Compelling Company Culture

The critical factor that determines the extent to which a team will be high performers: psychological safety

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Early stage

Startup due diligence begins with your cofounder(s)

The potential pitfalls of cofounding a company

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Creating A Compelling Company Culture? Pay Attention To What ISN'T Being Said.

Listen to what is not being said to understanding what your company culture

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Early stage

Why You Should Think Carefully About Hiring Based On Likeability

Should you hire people like you or not?

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Cool content

Are You A Deliberately Developmental Leader? Here's Why You Should Be.

The four fundamental principles to being a deliberately developmental leader

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How We Sense Company Culture And Why It Matters

The reason why we want to buy from, work for or support certain companies

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Employ Millennials? Here's Why You Should NOT Try To Retain Them

Millennials. Just like every generation before them, they are different, but there are smart ways to work with them

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Netflix Is Not the Problem: In Defense of Strong Organizational Cultures

A recent analysis of Netflix's culture fails to mention that none of the critiques should be news to Netflix employees.

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Why Every Business Needs a Culture Deck -- And How to Create One

A strong, well-designed culture deck becomes an extremely effective tool in communicating exactly how the company operates, giving the people insight into the company's mission, values, vision and purpose.

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Netflix's Company Culture Is Not For Everybody And That's Exactly How It Should Be

Reed Hastings and his company Netflix are not the first culture-driven organization to catch flak for their strong culture. In this article for Forbes I explore a recent article Shalini Ramachandran and Joe Flint of The Wall Street Journal interviewed 70 current and former Netflix employees, picking apart the culture describing the environment as “ruthless, demoralizing and transparent to the point of dysfunctional.”

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Early stage

6 Powerful Tools To Drive Your Company Culture Forward

Potent company culture is built on the foundation of shared values. Whether they are explicitly defined or not, shared values are the DNA of every company. At a fundamental level, they drive the behavior of the individuals that make up your team. Surfacing and defining your values is the first step to effectively leading your business and developing a strong and healthy company culture.

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Growth stage

It's Always Reassuring To Know How To Knee A Man In The Groin

Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley CH DBE FREng FBCS is an entrepreneur turned ardent philanthropist. An IT tech pioneer, she started her first company Freelance Programmers in 1962 with a capital of just £6 and built it into a software development powerhouse.

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Growth stage

How To Build A Culture Of Trust In A Large Remote Team

In interview Tamara Littleton the founder & CEO of The Social Element (formerly Emoderation) is an award-winning social media management agency with a global reach, remote team and fascinating culture.

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Growth stage

How Lazy Is Your Recruitment Process?

As a Forbes contributor I write about the difference between hiring for values fit vs culture fit

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Cool content

Get $3 Billion Big By Staying Small (Part III)

Lessons from WL Gore & Associates, the original “Culture-Driven” Company (Part lll)

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Get $3 Billion Big By Staying Small (Part II)

Lessons from WL Gore & Associates, the original “Culture-Driven” Company (Part ll)

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A collection of more than 200 books on company culture and their covers

Paying it forward - the web's largest collection of books on company culture and their front covers

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Cool content

The Do’s and Don’ts of writing effective Vision and Mission Statements

How to write your company mission and vision statement — and why it matters

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Growth stage

Giving Remote Control: how to build and scale a remote start-up

From idea to 60,000 beta signups in just six months From beta to €1million annual recurring revenue (ARR) in another six ARR of €10million in less than three years

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Early stage

Why would you let your employees choose their own salaries?

Companies like Semco, Buffer, Squaremouth, SumAll and WholeFoods have shown that making previously confidential information like salaries available to employees can counterintuitively drive up engagement and positively impact a company’s culture.

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What lumbering giants like GE & Microsoft do to adapt and change their corporate cultures

How do you drive a culture with hundreds of thousands of employees

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Scale

Get Big ($3 Billion Big) By Staying Small (Part I)

Lessons from WL Gore & Associates, the original "Culture First" Company

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Cool content

Two sweet spots for when startups should implement company culture

You can start to define your company culture at any time in the company's life cycle.

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Growth stage

Practice what you preach: How Learnerbly develops their feedback culture

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Cool content

The very best company culture decks on the web

Explore how companies like Netflix, Facebook, Etsy, Spotify and Buffer use their culture decks as a tool to describe their unique culture and embed their values, mission, vision and purpose into their organisations

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Early stage

The 13 steps to building a cult-like company culture

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Growth stage

The Usain Bolt of Organisations: Behind the Scenes at Next Jump, a Deliberately Developmental Organisation (Part I)

In 2016, a team of Harvard professors published An Everyone Culture citing Next Jump as 1 of 3 companies globally that represent the future of work – what they call: Deliberately Developmental Organizations (or DDOs for short).

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Scale

How transparency helped time:matters build a culture that never really felt like work

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Growth stage

"If you do the same things everyone else is doing, you’re hiring average candidates."

How creating a unique hiring process ensures you hire the best people

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Events

Techsylvania 2017 - Great people, great content, great city and a really great time. What more could you want from a tech event?

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Early stage

Don’t fuck up the culture... wasn’t what we were expecting to hear from someone who just gave us $150M!

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Events

Company Culture Workshop

AirBnB vs Uber - which company culture are you forming? Ensure your company culture is an asset and not a liability

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Growth stage

I want to join a company that….

If I was looking for a job right now what would I want to see from the ideal company?

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Early stage

From Subconscious to Conscious Startup Values

Mohamed AlTantawy's Medium post on how the Agolo team implemented the CultureGene workshop tools and defined their company's values.

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Growth stage

“Take 3 weeks’ vacation or you're fired!”

Mark Organ sold Eloqua, his first company for £871m. Here he talks about the culture mistakes he made at Eloqua and how he is rectifying them at Influitive.

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Growth stage

Happy living for everyone… except the British!

How Maarten Roerink built Guidion from 25 to 1500 people in 9 years

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Law

A very different type of law firm

"We try to create an environment where we respect everyone as individuals and try to treat everyone based on their needs."

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Early stage

How biophilic is your office?

What is the impact of biophilic design, what options are there to include biophilic design in your office and why is it so important to do so?

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Announcements

“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” breakfast event review

Review of the "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast" breakfast event co-hosted with Silicon Valley Bank

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Early stage

The value you get from kissing frogs

"If you are joining the company in your 20s, unlike when I joined, you're going to learn to code. It doesn't matter whether you are in sales, finance or operations. You may not end up being a programmer, but you will know how to code." Jeff Immelt, GE CEO

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PR & Comms

How to avoid hiring sociopaths and why the customer is not always right

Hiring senior executives is quite a challenge in our industry as they, more often than not, have already learnt the bad habits and working practices that we avoid at Ballou PR.

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Scale

The "culture advantage" and how to build a rock star team with no budget

Unlock the “culture advantage” by tapping into your team’s discretionary mental capacity and time.

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Announcements

"Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast" breakfast event

A fireside chat, panel discussion and presentation on company culture co-hosted with Silicon Valley Bank

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Scale

How does a start-up company become a perpetual learning machine?

The 6 parts required to build your company into a perpetual learning machine

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Growth stage

Winnow takes a bite out of Apple’s playbook.

How "Purpose" helps to develop a tangible advantage when it comes to employee happiness and commitment, hiring, fund raising, working with customers and developing business partnerships

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Scale

On the culture of anti-culture: No wankers and no bastards!

According to John Thompson the CEO there was a definitive moment in the company where he could tell that dysfunction had started to build up and they needed to invoke a change.

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Scale

HIRING SLOW, FIRING FAST - how to get the most from your company’s probation period

I have never come across any company that applies the rigor and discipline to solving the probation period problem the way AudioBooks does.

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Early stage

Preparing for the TechStars pressure cooker by investing in culture.

9/10 startups do not have a clearly defined culture, yet AssetVault decided to work on their culture almost from day one.

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Early stage

What, according to Sheryl Sandberg, is “probably the most important document ever to come out of the valley” and why?

How Hubble used a values based hiring methodology to scale their team from 8 to 18 in three months.

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Growth stage

“Culture is so important, it can make or break your business”

Your team are listening and watching carefully to see if what you say, do, and how you behave, match the values that your company espouses.

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Early stage

When entering the building, what percentage of themselves do your employees have to leave outside?

It is not possible for a person, whose values are not aligned with the company's, to deliver ultra high performance.

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Growth stage

The importance of Purpose and why your start-up needs one.

Companies who clearly articulate their purpose enjoy higher growth rates and higher levels of success.

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Early stage

The challenges of embedding your company culture in a global multi-office start-up

Misha Gopaul led a merger to create Fabric Technologies and discusses what he learnt from that process and how he applies those learnings in his current business FATMAP.

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Early stage

‘It was quite therapeutic getting a better understanding of what we are as a company’

Paul Archer set a world record by driving around the world in a black cab. In this interview he explain how he defined his company values after a workshop I help in London.

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Early stage

What if your people are not your greatest asset?

How the "odd" concept of borrowing someone else's dog has grown into a significant business with hundreds of thousands of very happy customers!

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Early stage

Hiring vs Marriage - Would you marry someone after spending just 8 hours with them?

Rob O'Donovan discusses what the company does to embed the culture at CharlieHR.

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Growth stage

Maslow Revisited – The Startup Hierarchy of Needs

How Maslow's hierarchy of needs can be applied to startups and how Skimlinks delivers self-actualisation for its people.

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