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"Creating Cultural Change"

Talkat Velocity 2010 · 2010-06-22..06-24· [engineering-leadership, soft-skills]
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Argues that technical fixes often fail because real barriers are cultural, and gives concrete wins: a humor poster coffee campaign at Amazon keeps the office coffee pot nearly always full; a lone dancer sparks a crowd into a movement in 2 minutes 40 seconds at Sasquatch; a Diamond Shreddies combo pack rebrand raises sales well above expectations. Recommends specific tactics: show one bad session from logs, create a cross‑team “virtual ops” with t‑shirts or review authority, and be persistent and relentlessly positive.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:28problems
  3. 2:39all the time
  4. 3:33how?
  5. 4:26complaining
  6. 5:00shaming
  7. 5:31humor
  8. 6:35A culture
  9. 6:45invite others to join
  10. 10:28three
  11. 13:12A perception
  12. 14:10relentlessly happy
  13. 14:52distillate
  14. 15:02try something new
  15. 15:49group identity
  16. 16:34welcome newcomers
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