Pull Positive to Recharge Your Culture
Someone recently explained to me how a battery works. On every battery there’s a positive and negative side. Energy gets transferred when the electrons are pulled from the negative over…
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Want Your Values to Stick? Try an ‘External Anchor’
Many of the important anchors you drop are internal, meant only for the development of the people in the trenches with you each day. But sometimes, it’s important to drop…
The Power of A Checklist: Turn Action into Habit
Many times the habits we think we are anchoring are not truly being anchored. The brilliant Atul Gawande in his book The Checklist Manifesto showed us all that we cannot…
Anyone’s Game: What March Madness Teaches Teams About Winning
Who doesn’t love a solid underdog story? You know the one. The little-known nobody taking on the big, bad somebody. It just feels right to root for them, doesn’t…
More Than A Motto: How Jimmy John’s Fosters A ‘Freaky Fast’ Culture
“Let’s test them,” I said with excitement in my voice. “After all, they say they are freaky fast.” The challenge was on. I was standing at the creative business retreat…
‘Tidying Up’ Our Teams: Making Space to Move Forward
There are three times as many individual storage units in the U.S. as McDonald’s restaurants. We have a lot of physical stuff that we’re storing. That’s made even more apparent…
Get Physical: Why Your Work Environment Matters
Mindfulness researcher Ellen Langer reminds us in her book Counterclockwise that “Our physical environment primes our feelings and behavior, although we are typically oblivious to its influence. Primes often tell…
Apply The Rule of 7 to Your Culture
You may know the old marketing adage about The Rule of 7. The concept is that someone has to hear a message seven times before they will take action and…
Put Your Actions ‘Above the Line’
As far as I can discern, the phrases “above the line” and “below the line” were first coined at Procter & Gamble in 1954 when accountants and marketers tried to…
Like System of Strength, ‘Find A Way’ to ‘Keep Moving’
When you walk into a System of Strength gym in Columbus, Ohio, you’ll see phrases such as “Keep Moving” and “Find A Way” displayed everywhere. The cinder block, exposed lighting and…