🌊 Culture

👋 Hey, I’m Ivan. I write about how top 1% startups raise and grow.

🦅 Culture Vulture

Culture is an important thing people talk (a lot) about in startups.

Yet, it is amazing how often people talk about it, but don’t follow through.

There is hardly a better way to ruin the vibe in your workplace than not walking your talk, particularly for leaders. Like Jocko says:

“It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate”

You may no think people notice, but those little details, that crumb-trail of little details a “bad” leader takes advantage of relative to what everyone on the team gets - everyone notices.

I always think back to Band of Brothers, the episode where the new Lieutenant Dike (a posh boy who wanted to be in politics and needed “field” experience) joins Easy Company during the invasion of Foy in the Ardennes.