Five Lies About Corporate Culture

Ginger Hardage is the former senior vice president of culture at Southwest Airlines. She led a team responsible for building and sustaining the organization’s legendary culture and communications enterprise, resulting in 23 consecutive years on Fortune’s list of Top 10 Most Admired Companies in the World.

Today, Ginger leads Unstoppable Cultures, a firm designed to help organizations create and sustain cultures of enduring greatness. She facilitates the annual Unstoppable Cultures Fellowship to help leaders of all kinds take practical steps to create the culture that will help their organization thrive.

In this week’s episode, Ginger and I discuss the five lies she’s seen to come up again and again in her work with leaders who are struggling with culture. Perhaps most importantly, Ginger emphasizes that leaders need not accept the default culture, but should work to define the culture.

Here are the most useful links from this episode:

• Full audio and show notes


• Bonus audio with Ginger: Defining a Culture


• 5 Lies About Corporate Culture


• Unstoppable Cultures Fellowship

If this episode helped, these will be useful too:

• The Four Critical Stories Leaders Need For Influence, with David Hutchens (episode 148)


• Notice and Change Dysfunctional Culture, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 327)


• How to Create an Unstoppable Culture, with Ginger Hardage (episode 350)

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Change Comes Through Resilience, with Leonardo Baumworcel (episode 425): Leonardo is the director of Hospital São Lucas in Brazil. He oversees a 200-bed hospital and emergency room seeing 10,000 patients a month and the work of 2,500 staff.

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Original source: https://coachingforleaders.com/corporate-culture-lies/