150 - How Top Companies Build Winning Cultures: Simon Taylor (Head of Organization Effectiveness, Gap)

Simon Taylor, Head of Organizational Effectiveness at Gap, joined us on The Modern People Leader. 

He shared the three steps to building a high performance culture, the three things all leaders need to do really well, and the commonalities that he’s noticed among the top performing companies.

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Pre-order his book Build Smart: A Blueprint for Building a High-Performing Organization

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Timestamps:

(1:55) Good news stories

(7:50) Chasing his childhood dream of moving to America

(11:29) What you do in Organizational Effectiveness

(13:12) Why we should be jealous Simon gets to work for the Gap

(14:30) Culture change is the number two priority for Global HR leaders right now

(18:43) The conflation between values and culture

(22:17) The 3 steps to building a high performance culture

(27:35) Shoring up sponsorship for culture initiatives with your leaders first

(33:30) His experience writing his first book

(35:03) Commonalities among the top performing companies 

(37:52) The three things all leaders need to do really well

(49:04) How Simon identified his playbook for building a high performance organization

(50:37) The four pillars of building and managing a high performance organization

(53:46) Biohacking

(1:03:40) Rapid fire questions

(1:07:44) Build Smart: A blueprint for building a high performing organization

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