60-Minute CEO: Mastering Leadership an Hour at a Time

Chapter 14

Kill Your Culture

Protecting your position as Head Thinker—committing to your sixty-minute sessions three days a week—is critical to running your company well. But it’s not sufficient. In order to carry your organization along with you, there’s something more to your job. And that is releasing your followers to be astronauts, too. You need to break the bonds that hold your colleagues back, which in most organizations is a considerable task.

How do you unlock widespread passion for adventure? In most organizations it means killing a part of your culture. The difficulty is that our legacy concepts of organizational structure and control ...