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At my very core, I am a lifelong student. Always curious and always asking why. Some questions won't leave me alone. So I go read the evidence and write down what I find. I want to share what I learn! All of it is Curiosities: the same questions, here in writing — and soon out loud, on the podcast, and in the letter that brings you the next one. Curiosity is the engine of my life.
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Six of them are The Culture Playbook: the book's argument, written for this site in my own voice, free to read.
You do not control the storm; you build for weather. The real test of a culture is what is still standing after the person who built it leaves.
The Culture Playbook · from the book
Read the essay: If you left your organization tomorrow, what would remain standing? →A nineteen-year-old holds up the jersey, and six weeks later he is alone in a city where he knows nobody. High performance runs on people it can also use up.
The Culture Playbook · from the book
Read the essay: Who holds a high-performance organization together, and who does it use up? →Pressure does not stop at the players. It reaches the person calling the timeout, and what survives is the decision you made in advance about how you would decide.
The Culture Playbook · from the book
Read the essay: What happens to a leader's judgment when the heat rises? →An open door changes nothing in a room that has already learned to stay silent. Repairing a culture means treating the soil, not replacing the person standing in it.
The Culture Playbook · from the book
Read the essay: Can a broken culture actually be repaired? →The player who saw the answer coming said nothing, and the arithmetic that kept her quiet was correct. Safety is not comfort; it is what makes a hard standard survivable.
The Culture Playbook · from the book
Read the essay: Can anyone in your building actually tell the truth? →Everyone credits culture and almost nobody can define it. It is not the feeling in the room — it is the rules nobody wrote down, running whether or not you designed them.
The Culture Playbook · from the book
Read the essay: Why do talent and money keep failing to build a culture? →Latest · Nº 006 ·
You do not control the storm; you build for weather. The real test of a culture is what is still standing after the person who built it leaves.
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