Culture Crusher or Crushed by Culture?
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
There is plenty of evidence showing the link between a strong company culture and stock performance. But what if a great culture goes bad? Bryan Hinmon, Chief Investment Officer of Motley Fool Asset Management discusses the red flags of a corporate culture on the decline.
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| 0:30.7 | This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm all alone again. This week I'm taking |
| 0:35.8 | you back one last time to our member event in Denver |
| 0:38.4 | to learn about how great business cultures go bad and the red flags that might impact |
| 0:43.3 | performance. All that and again that's really it on this week of Motleyful answers. |
| 0:50.2 | Culture is a valuable differentiator and can make a good business great, but culture isn't static. |
| 0:55.5 | It's always changing and sometimes not for the better. |
| 0:58.1 | Brian Hinman, portfolio manager of Motley Fool Asset Management, a sister company of the Motley Fool, |
| 1:03.0 | spoke recently at our Denver member event about the top reasons a company's culture suffers |
| 1:07.8 | and how declining performance follows. Also, the red flags to watch out for. |
| 1:13.2 | In 2013, there was a study done by Boozin Company that surveyed 2,200 executives, and 60% of those |
| 1:24.5 | 2200 executives said that culture was more important than strategy. |
| 1:30.3 | What's bonkers about that to me is if you think about what's taught in MBA programs and the curriculum, |
| 1:38.3 | it's highly focused on strategy and barely touches on culture. |
| 1:42.3 | Management teams, however, know and believe that culture is really, really important. |
| 1:52.0 | In his book, The Culture Cycle, James Heskett, |
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