Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and took control of the company when he returned. Apple was just 90 days from bankruptcy. Steve, took Apple from near bankruptcy to 400 billion in net worth in just 15 years.

Steve understood. The importance of having the right people in the right place, but also having the right culture to help them flourish.

As part of my CEO Masterclass, Linda Murray of Athena Leadership Academy talks about the importance of having the right culture for your organisation and how to develop it.

Key Takeaways

Culture is a lever that you can pull to help drive high performance in your team, where you personally as the CEO are integral to the setup of that, but it's actually everyone in the organisation's responsibility to keep that culture alive.

Don't try and reinvent the wheel. Look at what the big organisations with huge budgets who have culture teams and departments, look at what they're doing and think, so what's the more micro version of that, that I can start incorporating into my business.

If you went to go to every single person in your organisation, could they tell you what your vision is? And could they tell you in a way that demonstrates they feel like they're contributing to bringing that to life?

Highlights
0:00 Introduction to Organisational Culture
11:26 Examples of great cultures. And Why
13:50 What is the Vision?
19:45 Psychological Safety - the birthplace of innovation and performance
25:27 Southwest Airlines
29:27 What are the behaviours that would enhance your vision, and some
that might detract?
38:47 How do we continuously reinforce the Values with our teams?
41:50 Measuring employee engagement
46:25 What if staff are not good at receiving positive feedback?
48:00 CEO #criticalfewactions

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