Developing Culture Beyond the Theory

You know that the culture of your team and organization is critical to your ability to get work done. But here's my observation: most books on culture stay too theoretical. They share models for understanding what culture is. They have high-level processes for transforming culture. And despite nodding my head while reading these books, I find they're often not sufficiently practical. How do we, in practice, develop culture over time?

That's the focus of Brad Federman's new book entitled Cultivating Culture: 101 Ways to Foster Engagement in 15 Minutes or Less. Brad joined us way back in episode 36 to talk about engaging our team members and he's back with a new book to help us develop our team culture.

Learn more about Brad and his book at BradFederman.com.

For more on this topic of culture, check out the following episodes:

• Episode 25 with MIT Fellow Ed Schein
• Episode 251 with former Facebook leader Mike Rognlien
• Episode 252 with Marcus Buckingham

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