Rethink Culture is the podcast that shines the spotlight on the leaders who are rethinking workplace culture. Virtually all of the business leaders who make headlines today do so because of their company performance. Yet, the people and the culture of a company is at least as important as its performance. It's time that we shine the spotlight on the leaders who are rethinking workplace culture and are putting people and culture at the forefront.
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S02E20 Culture Classics: How to craft company values with Will Scott
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"If leaders are willing to be vulnerable and listen to their employees.. those are cultures which empower everyone to feel safe and to bring their whole selves to work... A lot of leaders are still trying to hide behind stuff.. and they are not sleeping well at night. The most peaceful place for a leader to be is to have stated values and then can …
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S02E19 Return Joy to the Workplace, with Rich Sheridan
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"We founded the company with a crazy big mission. We wanted to end human suffering in the world as it relates to technology, by returning joy to both technology and to the teams that design it and build it… I had this picture in my head of, what do I want my work life to look like? And I thought… a big opening collaborative work environment, a plac…
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S02E18 Creating a Safe Space that Loves the 5-Year-Old You and Helps them Grow , with Lisa Gill
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"I always hesitate a bit when organizations are like, happiness, happiness, happiness… because our pitfalls will never go away… I will always have those pitfalls. But if I can become conscious and intentional, then I can start to own my pitfalls instead of my pitfalls owning me. And I can start to take responsibility for them… We can talk about it …
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S02E17 Cooking an Authentic, Fulfilling, and Positive Culture, with Gustavo Razzetti
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"Leaders are usually less perfect than we were taught, or books tell us about them because leading is a very complicated thing… I always like to joke with my clients… when they say, we don't know how we're going to take our culture to the next level. I tell them, give me the ingredients you have, and I'm going to help you out the same way that some…
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S02E16 Creating an Organization without Managers, One Step at a Time, with Nathan Donaldson
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"You can't be productive unless your team is happy… It's not the foosball tables and the perks. It's that deeper happiness that comes from doing some meaningful work for people that you like and respect, working with people that you like and respect." S02E16 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Nathan Donaldson from New Zealand. N…
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S02E15 The War for Talent is a Victim Mindset, with Dominic Monkhouse
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"As a manager, as a leader… one of your goals is to build the best team that you can afford… So when people say, I can't attract any talent… it's not the talent's fault. Just because you have a job… just because you have a vacancy, there is no God-given right for amazing people to show up at your door and apply for it… Are you a shit place to work …
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S02E14 Hiring and Accepting People from Every Walk of Life, with Gina Schaefer
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"I think business owners have to really rethink who and how they hire, our judgments, our biases, and what as a society we can do, even as a small business like mine, to make it a more vibrant and equitable place... I wanted to make sure that we were treating everybody, no matter what their background was, where they were from, what language they s…
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S02E13 A Culture of Love, not Fear, with David Henzel
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"If you're not properly leading yourself, it's hard to lead others... How you do one thing is how you do everything. And if… the three areas of your life, if they're in order, if… yourself, mind, body, spirit is good and your family and relationships is good, then it's much easier to be good in the work world." S02E13 of the Rethink Culture podcast…
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S02E12 Creating a strong culture through an ownership mindset, with Kerry Siggins
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"What I would tell a leader is that culture starts with you, but it's made up of the collective. You have to set the tone for it and be that role model. You have to inspire people to be their greatest. Don't be afraid to put your people first… You have to be intentional about it… So don't tolerate people who are taking away from the culture… You ar…
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S02E11 A Culture that Attracts Rock Stars, with Jeff Hoffman
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"I tell founders this all the time, your goal is to build the company, the environment, to build the place where all the best people in your industry want to work and never want to leave." S02E11 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Jeff Hoffman, a successful entrepreneur, CEO, motivational speaker, and Hollywood film producer. He…
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S02E10 The ups and downs of scaling culture, with Wendy van Ierschot
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"If it was easy to become a great leader, we would have totally different politics, totally different companies, totally different burnout rates… "Okay, interesting, why is it so difficult for me?" I think investigating that makes us humans. And that makes you also a better leader if you understand what happens inside yourself. It's also easier to …
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S02E09 Culture needs to meet strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner and the after party, with Spencer Harrison
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"The best organizations will win the battle for talent by creating cultures that allow people to be their best more frequently. And that means one of your practices as a leader needs to be gathering stories that tell you when your people are at their best." S02E09 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Spencer Harrison, a professor …
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S02E08 No leader should lead alone, with Sandy Hall
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"No leader should lead alone. … they need a peer group, they need people they can share with, they need to be continually learning and developing, and they need … a support network. It's very easy for a leader to get to a point in their career where they know themselves well, they can be self-aware, they can develop the skills and be a passionate a…
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S02E07 From Troublemaker to Entrepreneur, with Bruce Sullivan (thank you Mrs Evans)
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"I always ask people right from the start to talk to me and decide what you want to be famous for… So, what's your intention in terms of that space and getting tasks done? … What's your intention in terms of the relationships that you want to have? What's your intention for the reputation of the team that you will serve?" S02E07 of the Rethink Cult…
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S02E06 A Workplace Culture of Accountability and Vulnerability, with Ron Lovett
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"If you're listening, you're on one or the other side of this quote, and the quote is, none of us will build great companies. We will lead incredible people who will build great companies. You either agree with that or you don't… It's a choice. It's a conscious choice." S02E06 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Canadian entrepre…
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S02E05 Leading with compassion and a culture of accountability, with Brian Brault
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“You lead human beings and human beings have lives and sometimes those lives are going really well and other times are dealing with challenges. Recognize the humanity in the people that you lead… If we lean in with curiosity and lean in with compassion first and we make people feel like they are genuinely cared about and valued as part of our team,…
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S02E04 100 days to feel seen, heard and valued, with Joey Coleman
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“In the first 100 days in most organizations, employees feel overwhelmed. They feel unconnected. They feel unseen, unheard, unappreciated … I think lots of times leaders will say, well, it will be better if we're all back in the office. Why? What proof do you have? What data do you have? Because as we look anecdotally at anecdata or we look systemi…
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S02E03 A Culture of Caring, Not Popcorn, with Garry Ridge
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"Culture is not about popcorn, peanuts, ping pong. It's about having a heart of gold and a backbone of steel. […] Be a caring organization […] It's a balance between being tough minded and tenderhearted. […] It's simple, it's not easy, and time is not your friend." Episode S02E03 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on the incredible…
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S02E02 A Culture of "Strong Convictions, Loosely Held", with Byron Darlison
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“The thing to be careful about, which always worried me, was just drinking your own Kool-Aid too much… “strong convictions, loosely held” the value of the company, which means that this is our culture, this is how we do things. We're very, very committed to this... if you come along and you speak a truth that's going to improve or… invalidate somet…
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S02E01 A Tattoo-Worthy Culture that Leaves a Lasting Mark, with Erik Lilla
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"I always think of culture like a garden. […] We're always in the middle of the journey. There's no real finish line to culture. It's always like that garden. You're always replanting it. You're always finding new crops. You're finding a new kind of seed to plant. And sometimes it doesn't work out and it's a failure. That's OK, too. There's learnin…
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S01E12 A Strong Culture is Like a Cult, with Verne Harnish
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“Is it companies who put employees first? Do they perform better than companies who put customers first? Or those that put stakeholders first?. I thought it was a fundamental question needed to be answered. And the answer [the came through John Kotter’s research] surprised everybody… The companies that outperformed by a factor of 10 were those that…
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S01E11 Two Fish in a Pond: Swimming in Culture, with Miren Oca
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“I think that culture has always been there […] There are two fish swimming in a pond, and a bigger fish swims past them and says, “How's the water?”. And when he swims away, the fish look at each other and say, “What's water?” […] Culture is always there. It's always around you. You can feel it, but you don't even realize you're in it.” S01E11 of …
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S01E10 Aligning what you think, say and do: Where culture meets values with Robert Glazer
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“Who you choose as your partner, what you choose as your vacation or your place of work, or the community you choose to live in, I think if these are not aligned to your values, you have a very low chance of success in the long run.” S01E10 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Robert Glazer, founder and chairman of Acceleration Pa…
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S01E09 Instilling a culture of amazing service with Gene Browne: waste management, how not to treat your customers, and flowered apologies
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“We ‘re a service business that just happens to to collect waste. I never get out of the bed in the morning thinking I’ m in the waste industry. Never, ever, ever. I don’t go to the waste management trade shows. Personally I can’t think of anything worse to do. It doesn’t inspire me. But I will read every book about the service industry. I wanna kn…
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S01E08 Creating a safe space for employees by getting rid of the micromanager within, with Dillon Jearey
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“The first thing that I needed to do was to start creating a safe space for my staff to challenge me. The harder part was for my staff to fail. And sometimes when they failed, we lost clients. And that was really bitter, bitter pills to swallow. But I realised very quickly that if I was to create the safe space, I had to stop micromanaging. Because…
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S01E07 Decoding Employee Happiness with David Niu: Transparency, Global Talent and Oscar Statuettes
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“Why should I constrain myself with Seattle’s geographic region when I can get talent throughout the world. Yes, it’s more challenging and I have to do more processes and technology to facilitate, but I believe fundamentally that there’s more talent that I can access and that outweighs having geographic proximity to the office.” S01E07 of the Rethi…
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S01E06 Transforming from an ego-driven boss to a selfless leader in just 20 years, with Arnie Malham
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“The culture I had at the time was the wrong culture, but it was the culture I deserved. It wasn’t my people. It wasn’t my clients. It wasn’t the environment. It wasn’t the economy. It was me. It was me trying to be the boss, to drive my team as opposed to the leader to lead my team” S01E06 of the Rethink Culture podcast features Arnie Malham, auth…
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S01E05 The two key principles of autonomous organisations - with Mehmet Yitmen
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In S01E05 of the Rethink Culture podcast, Mehmet Yitmen, co-founder at ACM Agile, talks about the principles of autonomous organisations and the process he uses to transform traditional hierarchical organisations into self-organising ones. Yitmen has worked with tens of organisations in Europe and the Middle East to transform them using agile and s…
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S01E04 David Nilssen on running not a business with a purpose, but a purpose with a business
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"A lot of entrepreneurs often believe that they have to have it all figured out, before they introduce it to their team. I ve always believed that if lead with authenticity and I say when we really know what's going on and when we testing something, people give us a lot of grace. " In S01E04 of the Rethink Culture podcast, David Nilssen, CEO of DOX…
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S01E03 Alexis Pantazis on hiring for smarts, passion and optimism
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In this episode of Rethink Culture podcast we talk to Alexis Pantazis, Exec Director and Co-Founder of HellasDirect, a 200-strong disruptive insurance company, built ona culture of shared vision and self-managing, diverse teams. "You always think of a strong leader as a general in the army, as opposed to somebody that has emotions and is much more …
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S01E02 Will Scott on how to craft company values
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"If leaders are willing to be vulnerable and listen to their employees.. those are cultures which empower everyone to feel safe and to bring their whole selves to work... A lot of leaders are still trying to hide behind stuff.. and they are not sleeping well at night. The most peaceful place for a leader to be is to have stated values and then can …
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S01E01 Haluk Can Hur on how to create an autonomous organisation
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In this pilot episode of Rethink Culture we speak with Haluk Can Hur, founder of Latro Chemical, a company pioneering a no-hierarchy, self-management model, that in 2022 received the 2nd Best Place to Work in Europe award. Latro is a 70-person company in Turkey running on a no-hierarchy, completely autonomous model with no titles, sales targets, OK…
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