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Culture Rules

The Leader's Guide to Creating the Ultimate Competitive Advantage

Mark Miller
Matt Holt Books, 2023

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9

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  • Applicable
  • Well Structured
  • Engaging

Recommendation

In any organization, culture dominates. A strong culture equals a strong organization. In strong cultures, employees love their work and care about how they perform. Consultant and prolific business author Mark Miller and his team interviewed thousands of insiders to learn how to create a strong business culture (or transform a weak one). Miller sets out three requirements – “alignment, performance, and improvement” – and three rules. You should “Aspire” to achieve your firm’s goals, “Amplify” to expand your organization, and “Adapt” to change when you must. Then, he says, train the right leaders to pull it all together.

Take-Aways

  • Games such as Monopoly create a “magic circle” that envelops players. Your culture can do the same.  
  • A high-performance culture depends on three factors: “alignment, performance, and improvement.”
  • Follow three rules. First, “Aspire” – ambitiously pursue clear goals.

About the Author

Mark Miller is the author of The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow, Chess Not Checkers: Transform Your Leadership Game, Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact, Uncommon Greatness: Five Fundamentals to Transform Your Leadership, and more. His first book was The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, co-written with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One-Minute Manager. Miller began at Chick-fil-A as an hourly worker and became an executive serving in multiple areas of the company, including training and leadership development.  

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