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How to leverage organizational storytelling in shaping culture

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Sharing your company’s story can have a powerful and long-lasting impact on company culture —especially during times of change. We found a great example in Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes. Stories are a common component of any healthy company culture, especially when renovating.

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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

One-on-Ones and Feedback Structure your 1:1s : Use a four-part format covering performance, relationships, leadership, and innovation. Document thoroughly : Use video, Loom, or detailed documentation to transfer knowledge effectively. Balance autonomy and alignment : Give teams freedom within clear strategic boundaries.

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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

Collins provides specific examples of how Southwest Airlines and other top-performing companies use responsibility-based cultures to achieve extraordinary results. He realized his responsibility wasn’t “keep developing the product” but “build a successful business ready for investment.”

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What to Make of Amazon’s Work Practices?

Both Sides of the Table

People seem polarized between, “that’s what it takes to succeed” to “I can’t believe what a heartless, intolerant and misogynistic company culture they’ve built.” It’s admirable and we shouldn’t hold up the hard-work culture as the pinnacle of achievement in life. ” No.

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The Constitution for Your New Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data

David Teten VC

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. These agreements may be inappropriate, unfeasible, or unwise to put in your signed legal documents.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. I was stuck in startup culture and he was stuck in big company culture and their was a chasm between us that couldn’t be rectified. But the truth is that he was right about the need to for us to change as we grew and I think this happens at a lot of startups.

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From Chaos to Control: How to Create Effective Systems and Processes in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Through a blend of agile methodologies, data-driven decision-making, and a desire to continually improve, our organization has unlocked unbounded potential, fostering growth, innovation, and a company we love to work both in and on. As a result, it opens up opportunities for growth, innovation, adaptability, and a strong culture.

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