Lesson 5: Building a High-Performance Culture

Culture is not a poster on the wall. Culture is what happens when the leader isn't in the room. And you CREATE your culture — consciously or unconsciously.

"I give everybody who's qualified the opportunity to sit at our table, period. That's how we went from a struggling speaker where we're at now... we have that type of representation — white female, El Salvadorian, Honduran, Lebanese, all these different 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, Jewish people." — Marques Ogden

In An Everyone Culture, Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey describe the concept of a Deliberately Developmental Organization — a culture where the entire organization is explicitly committed to the growth of every individual.

Key Takeaway:

You are the culture. What you tolerate, you approve. What you model, you propagate. Start today to consciously shape the culture you want to lead.

Book Citations:

- Kegan, Robert and Lisa Laskow Lahey. An Everyone Culture. Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.

- Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Lesson 5: Building a High-Performance Culture

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