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"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." We have all heard the phrase popularized by Mark Fields, but if your team engagement is dragging, turnover is high, or your daily meetings feel like a waste of time, it is time for a harsh reality check.

In Episode 77 of Outside Insights, host Chris Burkhard sits down with multi-time entrepreneur, speaker, and best-selling author of Worth Doing Wrong, Arnie Malham. Returning to the show five years after his first appearance on our Culture Reflects Leadership episode, Arnie delivers an unfiltered masterclass on why your company culture is a direct reflection of your leadership, good, bad, or indifferent.

Chris and Arnie dive into the exact tactical playbook to stop pushing your team and start leading them, including:

• The Mirror Test: Why you need to stop blaming clients, employees, or your industry and look directly at your own leadership style.
• Bottom-Up Culture: How to stop trying to be the single "rah-rah" person and successfully delegate culture projects to champions lower on your org chart.
• Fixing Broken Huddles: Why generic updates like "doing calls and meetings" kill productivity, and how to bring brutal specificity back to daily huddles.
• Toxic Superstars: How to handle the high-performing, high-billing employee who refuses to align with your values.
• Continuous Growth: Why reading must be built into your leadership habit and how books accelerate your pattern recognition.

Stop waiting to focus on culture "when you make money." Hit play to learn how fixing your culture is exactly how the money gets made.

📚 Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Featured Guest Book: Worth Doing Wrong: The Quest That Builds a Culture That Rocks by Arnie Malham
• Culture & Reading Platform: The Better Book Club (founded by Arnie Malham)
• Leadership Primer: The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• Classic on Hiring: Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
• Classic on Meetings: Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
• New Release Feature: What to Make of a Life by Jim Collins
• Connect with Arnie: Explore his speaking and consulting work at worthdoingwrong.com
  
  
  

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