The importance of company values - James Kerr talks Legacy

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This is the first of two read-alongs in August. Stacks of listeners and newsletter subscribers are reading along on two culture books with us, today we’re talking about Legacy by James Kerr. In two weeks we’re talking about What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz. Even you don’t read them the podcast here will cover the lessons of the books for anyone interested in workplace culture - and learning together. Go to the newsletter to join in with the conversation.

The All Blacks are the most successful rugby team of all time, in fact they have been called the most successful team in any sport. Drawing their players from a male population of just 2.5m New Zealand adult men, they don’t have any size advantage of the pool they draw from (if size determined outcome then England have more rugby players than the rest of the world combined). But the importance of team values have helped the team create and sustain a meaningful connection with the legacy of the team.

‘Culture is like an organism, continually growing and changing’.

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0:27.7	Registered reference number 900846. Hello, welcome to Eat Sleep Work Repeat. This is a podcast about making work better.
0:45.6	A little bit of a summer break. I know people were taking a break in so I wanted to
0:51.0	sort of give a little bit of a pause and I've got a couple of
0:54.4	episodes now that maybe you're still away on holiday or maybe you're just not
0:58.2	fully back into the work mode and I wanted to do a couple of things that I've mentioned on the newsletter.
1:04.1	The newsletter you could find by going to Eat Sleep Work Repeat and you'll see a link at the
1:09.4	top of the page and this month for August I'm doing two read-alongs and what I mean by that is I've
1:15.5	chosen two books that I think have got a real value to them to the moment we're
1:20.0	living in right now. Interestingly I think the importance of culture, business culture, work
1:26.9	culture is going to be more important than ever before because as we navigate to a world
1:32.0	which seems that there's going to be an almost universal adoption of hybrid working,
1:38.0	there's going to be a really critical consideration.
1:42.0	As I put in the newsletter last week, the book that we're drawing
1:46.4	from first today has a quotation in it and he says, the author James Kerr says that culture is what happens when no one is looking.
1:56.9	And for me that's got a real resonance that a suspect wasn't directly imagined at the time he wrote it, but a real resonance for hybrid working because no one's looking now at us for two or three days a week and you know we might find ourselves
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