Comments on: Get Off Your High Horse: 15 Ideas to Develop a Merit-Based, Results-Oriented Company Culture http://www.toplinestrategies.com/sometimesthebullwins/uncategorized/get-off-your-high-horse-15-ideas-to-develop-a-merit-based-results-oriented-business-and-impact-company-culture/ Thoughts for b-students, innovators & entrepreneurs, & corporate “intrapreneurs” looking for a way forward Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Karl Staib - Work Happy Now http://www.toplinestrategies.com/sometimesthebullwins/uncategorized/get-off-your-high-horse-15-ideas-to-develop-a-merit-based-results-oriented-business-and-impact-company-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Karl Staib - Work Happy Now Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:45:27 +0000 http://tfargo.wordpress.com/?p=843#comment-36 Great list. It's amazing how many of these core concepts are forgotten because people try to forget them. Meaning the CEO knows these ideas down deep, but still ignores these feelings. Great list. It’s amazing how many of these core concepts are forgotten because people try to forget them. Meaning the CEO knows these ideas down deep, but still ignores these feelings.

]]> By: AncAla Equity Partners http://www.toplinestrategies.com/sometimesthebullwins/uncategorized/get-off-your-high-horse-15-ideas-to-develop-a-merit-based-results-oriented-business-and-impact-company-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-27 AncAla Equity Partners Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:52:11 +0000 http://tfargo.wordpress.com/?p=843#comment-27 Thanks Jeff. I was delighted to hear that gift card was put to good use! Best ~ Tim Thanks Jeff. I was delighted to hear that gift card was put to good use!

Best ~ Tim

]]> By: Jeff Ballard http://www.toplinestrategies.com/sometimesthebullwins/uncategorized/get-off-your-high-horse-15-ideas-to-develop-a-merit-based-results-oriented-business-and-impact-company-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Jeff Ballard Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:06:54 +0000 http://tfargo.wordpress.com/?p=843#comment-26 Tim, Great article. Having worked with you closely over the last four years and indirectly longer than that, you definitely practice what you preach. Venita still talks about the gift cards you gave the spouses at one of the holiday parties. That might have something to do with the fact she used it towards the purchase of a Coach purse. :) Jeff Tim,

Great article. Having worked with you closely over the last four years and indirectly longer than that, you definitely practice what you preach.

Venita still talks about the gift cards you gave the spouses at one of the holiday parties. That might have something to do with the fact she used it towards the purchase of a Coach purse. :)

Jeff

]]> By: AncAla Equity Partners http://www.toplinestrategies.com/sometimesthebullwins/uncategorized/get-off-your-high-horse-15-ideas-to-develop-a-merit-based-results-oriented-business-and-impact-company-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-29 AncAla Equity Partners Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:00:23 +0000 http://tfargo.wordpress.com/?p=843#comment-29 Thanks Dwight. Please give Connie and family my warmest regards. You may know that one of my prized possessions is a photo album Mike and Kim presented when I left Alaska. The album took its theme from that old story about the three envelopes. They also preserved the original 5-sentence handout from that meeting, along with many pics, org charts, and letters. One fun memory I have is that over the next 10 years, it seemed every time I presented an org chart to the team after that introductory meeting in 1989, someone in the crowd held up two fingers -- reminding me what envelope I was on. Thanks Dwight. Please give Connie and family my warmest regards. You may know that one of my prized possessions is a photo album Mike and Kim presented when I left Alaska. The album took its theme from that old story about the three envelopes. They also preserved the original 5-sentence handout from that meeting, along with many pics, org charts, and letters. One fun memory I have is that over the next 10 years, it seemed every time I presented an org chart to the team after that introductory meeting in 1989, someone in the crowd held up two fingers — reminding me what envelope I was on.

]]> By: Dwight Pond http://www.toplinestrategies.com/sometimesthebullwins/uncategorized/get-off-your-high-horse-15-ideas-to-develop-a-merit-based-results-oriented-business-and-impact-company-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Dwight Pond Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:03:26 +0000 http://tfargo.wordpress.com/?p=843#comment-28 Tim, Once again, this is not just a set of good ideas but behavior that generates effective action. I remember being in that meeting. We were skeptical; we were cynical; and we were cautiously optimistic when you arrived. We were tired and the business was free falling. Somehow, you had to stop the fall and build hope. It was the humor mixed with reality wrapped in possibilities that was the difference. You left that day and we began thinking maybe it could be different. The rest is history. And by the way, my wife views your leadership as one of the bright spots in my overall career. Tim,

Once again, this is not just a set of good ideas but behavior that generates effective action. I remember being in that meeting. We were skeptical; we were cynical; and we were cautiously optimistic when you arrived. We were tired and the business was free falling. Somehow, you had to stop the fall and build hope.

It was the humor mixed with reality wrapped in possibilities that was the difference. You left that day and we began thinking maybe it could be different.

The rest is history. And by the way, my wife views your leadership as one of the bright spots in my overall career.

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