"Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing?
"In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs, and U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six—and reveals what makes them tick. He demystifies the culture-building process by identifying three key skills that generate cohesion and cooperation [building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose], and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind."
The staff at ELI have embraced The Culture Code as a roadmap towards creating a more effective and connected team. See how we are reinventing our culture, and how you can too.
Ted Dintersmith's work to promote and develop schools that are truly innovative has taken him through a variety of creative and impactful projects. From producing the acclaimed film Most Likely to Succeed, to traveling the US researching for his book, What School Could Be, Dintersmith has provided a modern and inclusive frame for understanding how our education systems are in many ways falling behind when it comes to developing more innovative and resilient students.
Learn more about Dintersmith's insights into the US education system in this recent interview for the Off-Trail Learning podcast.
In this heartwarming mini-documentary about an ex-con turned entrepreneur, we see the purest example of an entrepreneurial mindset in action. By tackling a massive problem, reintegrating into society after release from prison, Maryam Henderson-Uloho shows us how to recognize an opportunity to inspire and transform others. Watch her entrepreneurial journey towards creating the group Sister Hearts in this brief film, and see how rather than access to capital and following strict business planning, entrepreneurship is founding in finding and solving problems for others.
Henderson-Uloho's story is not only inspiring, but it also informs us about how we can empower ourselves and others flourish.
From a recent Q&A with Professor Henrietta Onwuegbuzie of Lagos Business School, we learn "about how businesses that prioritize impact, purpose, and value can drive economic development and social transformation, in her native Nigeria or any other country."
Onwuegbuzie emphasizes the power of being purpose-driven, connecting to the cultures around you, and placing impact over profit. By seeing the products and services you provide through this lens, she argues, you begin to find new avenues to promote your business and often open up new opportunities for your business in the process.
"It is time for academia to reverse things by making the curriculum focus more on entrepreneurship, which develops people with an orientation to be solution providers and consequently, job creators. This is what today’s society needs. Even if these students get jobs, they will perform better if they have been trained to have an entrepreneurial mindset, which is one of continuous improvement."
Entrepreneurship, in essence, is about discovery. Through openly experimenting and connecting with our environments, even in the workplace, we see engagement rise and employees become passionate about their work.
In this brief piece from 2018, the Harvard Business Review highlights similar methods to The Culture Code when talking about building resilient and impactful teams. By emphasizing employees' room to failure, learn, and adapt, leaders can create a safe environment for workers to be innovative.
"Macromanagement...is not only critical to encourage a leadership mentality, but it also plays a major role in helping to nurture creativity on your team. Individuals need to have a sense of ownership in order to allow themselves to try things that haven’t been tried before, and to let their inspirations morph into practical solutions."
