COLIN ON CULTURE
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10 of my favourite culture quotes
Inspiration you can use
Management: High stress, low reward
The promotion that costs you everything
The job is fine. The work is the problem
Where you’re based is the least important thing
The best time is now
Waiting only prolongs the agony
Is your culture going stale?
Without intervention conditions will always worsen
The danger of 'fast fashion’ projects
They look great on the hanger, but fall apart quickly
Culture is your best marketing department
It’s your people that generate brand advocacy
Purpose is an inconvenience
It’s a statement of what you won’t do
The banker who gave Britain reason to rest
When we take a break we do everything better
Knowing everything, doing nothing
Information is useful if we do something with it
The half we keep ignoring
Autonomy is nothing without heteronomy
There's no AI without the human
People first then machines
Declining meetings
How you spend your time is your decision
Culture starts and ends at the top
Leaders are always accountable for employee conditions
The leadership clarity and prioritisation problem
How leaders set direction on what’s important
Stop trying to win arguments
Disagreements aren’t battles
Ambition without wreckage
Progression doesn’t need a trail of destruction
What small talk says about your culture
Let’s not talk about the weather
The cost of delivering bad news, badly
People won’t forget how you tell them
Leadership and culture
The interconnected nature of who and how