A Player

A Player

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your culture is let someone go. A players love working with A players and they really don’t love working with C and D players. So if you have a team of A players and you’re trying to coach along a C or D player...

When Rewarding Your Employees Backfires

Welcome to the corporate twilight zone, where hitting $10 billion in sales is celebrated with… stale cookies. Yes, you read that right. Sephora, in its infinite wisdom, decided that the best way to commemorate an epic sales milestone was by dispatching cookies...
Meeting Apocalypse

Meeting Apocalypse

Hello, culture leaders. Here is your weekly culture challenge. I’d like you to go through your calendar and identify every single recurring meeting that exists and think deeply about whether or not they’re necessary, whether or not they need to be as long...
A Player

Be The Lion

Be the work lion. And I’m talking about your work spirit animal. There’s lots of different working styles. And my style is the lion style, which I think is the best style. The lions stalk their prey. They have a target in mind. They come up with a plan....