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964 - WP-Tonic Show: Startups or Established Companies, Why Culture is Everything!

·55 min·5 clips
Brad Inlet reveals how he replaced three directors to shift a university's IT culture from fire drills to customer focus.
Hosts Jonathan Denwood and Kurt von Ahnen interview Brad Inlet, an expert on business culture, discussing how culture impacts startups and established companies. They explore topics like leadership, strategy, AI's effects on jobs, and ethical practices, with Brad sharing personal experiences from his career at Accenture and the University of Texas.

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Founder energy can power the start, but scale reveals where it stops fitting.

The discussion lands on a familiar but useful tension: founder energy can drive a company early, then become harder to manage once scale enters the picture.

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You want a blunt take on how culture helps a startup and can get in the way as a company scales.

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