As Warren Buffet said, “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” The majority of CEOs who ran office-based businesses before the pandemic are currently butt naked. …

How long will the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis last? What will ‘business as usual’ look like when the pandemic is over? Nobody knows — so we surveyed 165 startup CEOs to find out — and the results were surprising. If company culture is defined as “the way we work around here”…

Who gets it? The world of venture capital is strange. A few thousand individuals invest hundreds of billions of dollars into ventures large and small (Hampleton Partners report that in 2018, $185bn was invested worldwide). These dollars provide entrepreneurs with the resources and runway they need to create companies that…

THE CRITICAL FACTOR THAT DETERMINES THE EXTENT TO WHICH A TEAM WILL BE HIGH PERFORMERS: PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ‍Google’s multi-year study to understand how to build the perfect team yielded some surprising results. An elite group of statisticians, psychologists, sociologists and data scientists came together to review half a century’s worth of academic studies of groups and teams and then attempted to map the composition of the teams…

Deciding to start a business is a momentous decision. Any entrepreneur will tell you that in the early years — with no guarantee of long-term success — you will pour more blood, sweat and tears into your venture than you even knew possible. …

Your company’s culture is either a strategic asset or a potential liability. Canny leaders invest in defining, embedding and reinforcing their culture. They do so because they understand that it is the only sustainable competitive advantage in their business that they could have complete control over. …

Not many people know where the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” originates from. On November 18, 1978 Jim Jones, the founder and leader of the People’s Temple cult, convinced his followers that the end of the world was upon them and 909 men, women and children committed mass suicide by drinking…

In 2016, a team of Harvard professors published An Everyone Culture citing Next Jump as 1 of 3 companies globally that represent the future of work — what they call: Deliberately Developmental Organizations (or DDOs for short). The Usain Bolt of Organisations: Behind the Scenes at Next Jump, a Deliberately…

In this final instalment of our three-part series on W.L Gore Associates, we’ll look at how management and leadership work in a company known and lauded globally for its culture. …