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“I always ask people right from the start to talk to me and decide what you want to be famous for… So, what’s your intention in terms of that space and getting tasks done? … What’s your intention in terms of the relationships that you want to have? What’s your intention for the reputation of […]

“If you’re listening, you’re on one or the other side of this quote, and the quote is, none of us will build great companies. We will lead incredible people who will build great companies. You either agree with that or you don’t… It’s a choice. It’s a conscious choice.” S02E06 of the Rethink Culture podcast

“You lead human beings and human beings have lives and sometimes those lives are going really well and other times are dealing with challenges. Recognize the humanity in the people that you lead… If we lean in with curiosity and lean in with compassion first and we make people feel like they are genuinely cared

“In the first 100 days in most organizations, employees feel overwhelmed. They feel unconnected. They feel unseen, unheard, unappreciated … I think lots of times leaders will say, well, it will be better if we’re all back in the office. Why? What proof do you have? What data do you have? Because as we look

“Culture is not about popcorn, peanuts, ping pong. It’s about having a heart of gold and a backbone of steel. […] Be a caring organization […] It’s a balance between being tough minded and tenderhearted. […] It’s simple, it’s not easy, and time is not your friend.” Episode S02E03 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines

In this episode of Rethink Culture podcast we talk to Alexis Pantazis, Exec Director and Co-Founder of HellasDirect, a 200-strong disruptive insurance company, built ona culture of shared vision and self-managing, diverse teams. “You always think of a strong leader as a general in the army, as opposed to somebody that has emotions and is

“If leaders are willing to be vulnerable and listen to their employees.. those are cultures which empower everyone to feel safe and to bring their whole selves to work… A lot of leaders are still trying to hide behind stuff.. and they are not sleeping well at night. The most peaceful place for a leader

In this pilot episode of Rethink Culture we speak with Haluk Can Hur, founder of Latro Chemical, a company pioneering a no-hierarchy, self-management model, that in 2022 received the 2nd Best Place to Work in Europe award.  Latro is a 70-person company in Turkey running on a no-hierarchy, completely autonomous model with no titles, sales

“The thing to be careful about, which always worried me, was just drinking your own Kool-Aid too much. […] “strong convictions, loosely held” the value of the company, which meaning that this is our culture, this is how we do things. We’re very, very committed to this. […] if you come along and you speak

In S01E05 of the Rethink Culture podcast, Mehmet Yitmen, co-founder at ACM Agile, talks about the principles of autonomous organisations and the process he uses to transform traditional hierarchical organisations into self-organising ones. Yitmen has worked with tens of organisations in Europe and the Middle East to transform them using agile and self-management principles over