Share   Creating your values, vision and purpose is only a small part of starting to create a great culture. In fact, that is the easy part. The hard part is bringing them alive inside of your company. Jim Collins (through Built to Last and Good to Great) told us that we needed to have [...]

Share   Some time in the 1970s, University of Illinois researcher Leann Lipps Birch conducted a series of experiments on children who didn’t like to eat their peas in order to find out the big question: what would get these children to start liking peas? Everything was tried, from rewarding the kids with ice cream, [...]

Share One day Ken and I were looking at Nurse Next Door’s painted picture, and we asked ourselves “how much more engaged would our team members be in our painted picture if we were engaged in theirs?” So we started to teach our team members how to create their own. Soon, most of our team [...]

Share People often ask me the question “what are the statistics to show that having a strong culture works?” Aside from Jim Collin’s research proving that the habit of all great, visionary companies is to have a culture based on values, vision and purpose, I haven’t found anything really interesting in this area. So I [...]