Quotes About Culture

Even if your company is experiencing good times now, the business will eventually be at risk if the leadership culture is not strong or aligned.

Strong cultures are to organizations what breathing life-giving oxygen is to the body, while weak ones are like poisonous carbon monoxide. Don't ignore the cultural health of the business.

Being a leader on a quest to amp up your company's culture might be one of the hardest things you will ever do, but the journey is so worth it. It can be life-changing.

The greatest accelerant to a cultural flame is leadership.

Now and forever, culture is only as strong or weak as the employees that make up the organization.

The desired behaviors will produce the desired culture. Employ the right brand ambassadors and you create a culture that rocks.

Consumers experience and come to know a company's culture because of the consistent, widely shared, collective behaviors of the internal team.

Culture change starts on the inside.

Put in the work. Sustainable culture change takes time, patience, persistence, know-how and passion, but it's not impossible and it's completely worthwhile.

Become a culture catalyst. While protecting the company's heritage, take bold risks that other people only dream about or are too scared to try.

Get in the game. Regardless of your leadership level, real culture change only happens by thinking differently, acting on those new ideas and fearlessly defending the decisions later.

Leaders have the power to light up or extinguish the cultural flame of a company.

Be the accelerant. You have the power to light up the cultural flame of the company. It's not going to happen because of programs, processes, tools, branding or the product itself; focus on the culture and light it up!

Own the place. Act as if you started (or own) the business; this will create added focus, commitment, inspiration and guidance to crafting the right culture.

Light the fire. An established culture needs to be catered to, amped up and perpetuated for the future. Regardless of the state of the culture, take it to "Eleven".

Small businesses and large corporations alike reap huge rewards from a great company culture.

As a leader and a manager, how valuable would it be to bring more positive energy and passion to the workplace?

America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.

A society that once operated with some degree of sanity and politeness has become largely demented and rude.

But there's a world of difference between knowing a type and knowing a person. When you've traveled all over the planet, as I have, and communicate with people from other cultures, you come to understand that, ultimately, very few human beings conform to the stereotypes imposed upon them. And, for the most part, we all want the same things out of life.

We have become a society of people that loves to blame someone else for our condition.

The sociology of many white communities shapes the theology of their churches, making them "conformed to the world" and disobedient to the gospel.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.