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Vault course 15 of 18 · 5 lessons · 19 min · video
The Foundation of Culture, Part 1
At VP and C-level, culture is what you tolerate in your own leadership team, and your staff meeting is the culture your directors copy. This course shows how culture is built by behavior, why psychological safety comes before performance, and how to design a culture that holds when you're not in the room.
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Narrated by Andreas Pettersson. Built from the Leaders ADAPT library with Martha Spalding.
Lessons
- 1Culture is what your directors copy
Why culture is set by what senior leaders do in the room, and the numbers that make it a business decision.3:43 - 2What you tolerate becomes the culture
How culture is built by what you tolerate in your own leadership team, and why safety has to come before performance.3:48 - 3Fear sets the ceiling: the emotional baseline
Why the leader sets the emotional baseline of a team, and three questions that show you where your people go silent.3:44 - 4Silence is not alignment: the blind spot of control
Why autocratic habits quietly cap a leadership team, and how to see the control you can't see in yourself.3:39 - 5Design a culture that scales without you
How to design a culture that corrects itself as you scale, starting with values that survive three pressure tests.3:39
All lessons are recorded.
How a lesson works
Each lesson is about five minutes, the slides with Andreas narrating, or audio only on your phone between meetings. It opens on one situation at the executive level, teaches one tool, and closes with your move: one thing to do before the next lesson. The full written lesson sits under the player, so you can read instead, or go back for the exact sentence you want to use.
Created and narrated by Andreas Pettersson. The narration uses an AI model of Andreas's own voice.