Dr. Sam Chand
Dr. Sam Chand is an amazing leader, a friend, and one of my go-to resources for my personal growth. He is a leadership architect and change strategist who works with numerous businesses, churches, and social organizations. His book Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth was one of my 10 Books Which Need To Be On Every Leader’s Bookshelf.
Dr. Chand also sends out the weekly newsletter Tuesdays With Sam Chand. This week’s edition featured a short video entitled “Keep Your Eye on Culture” discussing the subject of toxic cultures.
As I listened to his words, I gleaned eight facts about toxic cultures I want to pass along to you. First will be the fact followed by Dr. Chand’s comments.
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8 Facts About Toxic Cultures
- Toxic Cultures Are Doomed For Failure – “Your organization can have great systems. Your organization can have great teams. Your organization can have all the funding and financing you need. But if your culture is toxic, your culture is unhealthy, your culture is not congruent to who you are, it is going to fail.”
- Toxic Cultures Are More Powerful Than Big Visions – “A toxic culture will eat vision for lunch.”
- Toxic Cultures Destroy Vision – “Your vision sits in the crucible of your culture.”
- A Toxic Culture Is Not How You Do Things – “Culture is simply ‘This is how we do things here.'”
- Potentially Toxic Cultures Need To Be Aggressively Monitored – “The culture of your organization has to be monitored on a regular basis.”
- Toxic Cultures Are Destroyed From The Middle Of Your Organization – “Culture is created at the top, sustained from the bottom, and destroyed from the middle.”
- Toxic Cultures Have A Faster Pace Than Healthy Cultures – “Culture Erosion happens gradually and then suddenly. Culture can be destroyed, culture can erode, culture can deteriorate at a faster pace than you can keep it healthy.”
- Toxic Cultures Ruin All Your Hard Work – “It takes 18 months to two years to take a toxic culture and make it healthy. It takes just a matter of weeks to take a healthy culture and make it toxic.”
Are you aggressively monitoring your culture? If not, you may become victim to Culture Erosion which could result in a toxic culture eating your vision and previous hard work for lunch.
For additional resources on the subject of culture read the following:
- 12 Lessons on High Performance Teams & Winning Cultures from the Best Locker Room Speech I Have Ever Heard
- 8 Characteristics Of A Winning Culture
- 25 Lessons On Creating Winning Cultures We Learn From The Miami Heat And Denver Nuggets
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