company culture

The leader who cannot find the humanity in the people around them has usually lost contact with it in themselves first, and the exhaustion that so many of us carry home is often the hidden cost of managing a self that no one was ever invited to meet. Stop managing roles. Start Leading People.

Does culture really matter? This question comes up constantly in my work. Prospective clients point to companies with notoriously harsh cultures that are dominating their markets, and they ask me directly: if those organizations are winning without investing in culture, why should we? What I have learned through two decades of working inside Fortune 500 companies and with leaders who have navigated these high-pressure environments is that the answer is more nuanced than the q