LIVEculture: How Creative Leaders Grow The Cultures They Want

by Nancy K Napier

Many leaders undervalue the power of culture as a competitive advantage. Don’t make that mistake. LIVEculture offers tips from successful creative leaders on how they shaped, communicated, and grew the cultures they wanted for their organizations. Their stories of how they use culture to boost performance are inspiring, sometimes funny, and immediately useful. Learn the secrets of a Gang of creative leaders who continuously do things differently to get better, and happen to beat their competition along the way.

150 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 2015

Reviews

[Tri Dung Tran · Rating 5 out of 5]

The tip on the back cover is both recommendation and question. “Many leaders undervalue the power of culture as a competitive advantage. Don’t make that mistake” – by Nancy K. Napier with the Gang.

This is one of few book that I was able to start at the first page and finish at the last page. Why? Simple: it is short. Every section is really as short as 2-page story. I love short story.

Unfortunately, one cannot go straight forward from beginning to end. The author asks you to take a rest after every chapter. Then think about what you have read, compare what you have read to what you have done, then plan what you are going to do, in fact to change. In my situation, these rests take more than expected. It is because I am lazy at reading. It takes time to observe what managements and corporations are doing with their culture. It takes more time to learn their lesson. OMG, this is accidentally “hear [read] it, see it, and do it”(p.49)

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[David Defoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful book that talked about the importance of building a successful culture. I really enjoyed the various professional genres the author drew the salient points from.