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Build a dynamic work culture that inspires employees and promotes organizational growth.
Evidence shows culture drives fiscal performance. It's no secret that a toxic work culture can drive away employees and drive down profits. Creating a dynamic work culture that promotes both employee and business growth is key to ensuring an organization's success. However, culture is a moving target and hard to get right. In Great Mondays, brand strategist Josh Levine introduces a proven formula for building and managing a workplace culture that maximizes employee engagement, performance, and retention for long-term business success.Â
Written in a punchy, outcomes-driven style, Great Mondays reveals the six components for driving culture change in any type of organizationÂ
- Purpose the motivating force - the North Star of an organization that both inspires and guides
- Values the powerful culture guardrails that establish behavioral expectations of employees and leaders
- Behaviors the culturally aligned symptoms and actions of a work culture
- Recognition the ways in which organizations can more effectively reward employees
- Rituals the regular activities that create and strengthen relationships between individuals
- Cues the physical and behavioral reminders designed to reconnect everyone to the organization's purpose and goals for the future
With real-life case studies drawn from Silicon Valley heavy hitters, prominent nonprofits, major corporations, and respected universities, leaders of all levels will find expert guidance and proven strategies they can put to use to create a dynamic culture where employees thrive and business grows. Â
Read Great Mondays How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love Audible Audio Edition Josh Levine McGrawHill Education Books
"I selected the observation by Peter Drucker because it suggests the power that a workplace culture can have, for better or worse. It is no coincidence that most of the companies annually ranked among those most highly admired and best to work for are also among those that are annually ranked among the most profitable with the greatest cap value in their industry segment. There are other workplace cultures whose leaders are, as James O'Toole so aptly describes it, "hostage to the ideology of comfort and tyranny of custom."
Josh Levine has wide and deed experience designing a workplace culture "where people not only want to work, but love to work." That is, a culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive. He recommends a framework that consists of six separate but interdependent components:
"PURPOSE: Why an organization exists beyond making money
VALUES: Shared beliefs about what is most important when conducting business
BEHAVIORS: Choices made by employees that are guided by purpose and values
RECOGNITION: Programs that encourage behaviors that bring the culture to life
RITUALS: Recurring group activities that build and strengthen relationships
CUES: Reminders that help employees and leaders stay connected to the future"
They are the WHAT and WHY. Levine also explains HOW leaders can establish and then sustain such a workplace culture in any organization, whatever its size and nature may be.He appropriates some of the features of a workbook providing space throughout his narrative to record responses to dozens of questions and suggestions or complete exercises such as "After it's gone, why will your company be remembered?" (page 46) and "Write Your Company's Purpose Statement" (page 47) or having members of a group complete a three-step exercise to determine their company's purpose (page 48).Â
I also highly recommend keeping a lined notebook near at hand (my preference is the Mead "marble" composition notebook) in order to record comments, questions, page references, etc. This will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent review of key material later. Having the completed exercises readily available will also help to guide and inform the aforementioned modifications and adjustments of culture design.
I agree with Marshall Goldsmith admonition, "What got you here won't get you there." In fact, I think "whatever got you here won't even keep you here," wherever "here" may be.
With all due respect to the importance and challenges of culture design, Levine realizes that design modifications and adjustments must be made in a global marketplace that becomes more volatile, more uncertain, more complex, and more ambiguous each day. One key to business success these days is the ability and willingness to redesign whenever circumstances require that. I wish I had this book when, for the first time, I was given direct reports to supervise. Even then, change was the only constant in the competitive marketplace I surveyed.
As I hope these remarks indicate, I highly admire Josh Levine and his work. If your organization needs to establish and then nourish a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive, this book is a "must read.""
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- If you want to build an effective, vibrant company environment, this hands-on, practical guide is the place to start and stay. An easy to read, almost playful, roadmap, it is a tool that you will refer to over and over again as you create and maintain a culture that thrives with employees who care deeply about their work and the invaluable role they play in the success of your/their company. Unlike other such books, Josh makes the learning fun with interesting examples that bring the process to life, along with detailed instructions on how you can develop and maintain a healthy and dynamic company culture. An essential tool to the success of any organization.
- Culture is an invaluable element of brand, but one often overlooked. Great Mondays is exactly the kind of jump-start guide you'd want if you were serious about upping your company (or non-profit) culture game. Josh knows his stuff and doesn't waste time with impenetrable biz-speak; just easy to understand and apply tools for developing a happy workforce and community.
- Loved the layout of the book - it is an enjoyable instruction manual to get your company culture on track.
- I've been interested in culture as a topic for a long time, but haven't found a lot of books that break down culture into living, breathing components the way Josh does in Great Mondays.
If you're looking to learn more about what company culture is, how to identify it, and how to redesign it, Great Mondays is the book for you. - Great book super current
- This is a fantastic book. The concepts are clear and actionable. I can't wait to begin implamentation with my team
- I selected the observation by Peter Drucker because it suggests the power that a workplace culture can have, for better or worse. It is no coincidence that most of the companies annually ranked among those most highly admired and best to work for are also among those that are annually ranked among the most profitable with the greatest cap value in their industry segment. There are other workplace cultures whose leaders are, as James O'Toole so aptly describes it, "hostage to the ideology of comfort and tyranny of custom."
Josh Levine has wide and deed experience designing a workplace culture "where people not only want to work, but love to work." That is, a culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive. He recommends a framework that consists of six separate but interdependent components
"PURPOSE Why an organization exists beyond making money
VALUES Shared beliefs about what is most important when conducting business
BEHAVIORS Choices made by employees that are guided by purpose and values
RECOGNITION Programs that encourage behaviors that bring the culture to life
RITUALS Recurring group activities that build and strengthen relationships
CUES Reminders that help employees and leaders stay connected to the future"
They are the WHAT and WHY. Levine also explains HOW leaders can establish and then sustain such a workplace culture in any organization, whatever its size and nature may be.He appropriates some of the features of a workbook providing space throughout his narrative to record responses to dozens of questions and suggestions or complete exercises such as "After it's gone, why will your company be remembered?" (page 46) and "Write Your Company's Purpose Statement" (page 47) or having members of a group complete a three-step exercise to determine their company's purpose (page 48).Â
I also highly recommend keeping a lined notebook near at hand (my preference is the Mead "marble" composition notebook) in order to record comments, questions, page references, etc. This will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent review of key material later. Having the completed exercises readily available will also help to guide and inform the aforementioned modifications and adjustments of culture design.
I agree with Marshall Goldsmith admonition, "What got you here won't get you there." In fact, I think "whatever got you here won't even keep you here," wherever "here" may be.
With all due respect to the importance and challenges of culture design, Levine realizes that design modifications and adjustments must be made in a global marketplace that becomes more volatile, more uncertain, more complex, and more ambiguous each day. One key to business success these days is the ability and willingness to redesign whenever circumstances require that. I wish I had this book when, for the first time, I was given direct reports to supervise. Even then, change was the only constant in the competitive marketplace I surveyed.
As I hope these remarks indicate, I highly admire Josh Levine and his work. If your organization needs to establish and then nourish a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive, this book is a "must read." - I pulled up my copy of Josh Levine’s new book "Great Mondays How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love" on a Monday morning, and it made my day a great Monday. Josh speaks with an authoritative voice honed by years of serious work with culture leaders. He weaves together resonant strands of thought leadership with practical exercises to create organizational culture designs that people will appreciate on Monday and throughout the workweek. If you care about company culture, this book is indispensable.
