A interesting read on company culture. I appear that the author uses real world examples & focus on his seven pillars. The book is written for a broad audience & can occasionally feel overly simplified.

A really interesting book on company culture, raises some interesting points - definitely a few things that make you think!

Chris dyer is the founder and CEO of a Company called PeopleG2 and over the years has become more and more interested in engagement and culture in the workplace. He runs a podcast called TalentTalk and has now written this book for other business owners, CEOs and HR Executives on why workplace culture matters and what you can do about it.

To begin, he takes us through why a vision, mission and values are important and what they all mean. Then the chunk of the book is then what, he thinks, are the seven pillars to culture success. These being:
1. Transparency
2. Positivity
3. Measurement
4. Acknowledgement
5. Uniqueness
6. Listening
7. Mistakes
Dyer has researched these well through this podcast, but also through his own self development reading books, case studies, attending conferences and so forth. For example, he references Carol Dweck, Simon Sinek and Stephen Covey (amongst others) who are all well known and respected in their fields.
This is not a big book, but it covers a lot of ground and I really enjoyed reading it. As a HR consultant, there were many things that were not new to me, but it was nice to have them validated ;), and then there were other examples that I made notes of as I can see how that could work with some of my clients.
I particularly loved the last line in which he reminds us to "persist". It is a reminder that culture change is very difficult and does take planned strategy and ongoing effort.

I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn more about company culture, and particularly those who can have great influence over it.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.