Ignite Culture

Business & Investing

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Synopsis

Learn how to Empower and Lead a Healthy, High-Performance Organization from the Inside Out in this Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

Sometimes corporate leaders forget that businesses are human systems. Revenue, innovation, and growth are all generated by human beings. Every organization is a human system, an amalgamation of personalities, behaviors, moods, actions and interactions. All too often, personalities when on overdrive, cause defensive aggressive or passive defensive polarities in how people work together. This causes relational friction, dysfunction, dissatisfaction and stress - all adversely impacting organizational culture.

Offering a unique combination of experiential coaching, evidence-based leadership tools, and actionable strategies, this book empowers business leaders with the wisdom and insights they need to assess how personality overdrive is causing relationship breakdowns and unnecessary conflict.

Ignite Culture gives CEOs, HR, and Business Leaders a first-hand view into what causes dysfunction in the workplace and what to do about it. You learn how to cultivate a healthy company culture, increase employee engagement and performance, spark innovation among teams and align people towards a common cause.

Inside, you learn to:
-Understand how important introspection and self-discovery are to personal and organizational performance.
-Learn the impact of our behavior on the spaces in which we work.
-Experiment with new ways to alter old behaviors that inhibit growth.
-Be equipped to coach and mentor others on owning their impact.
-Catalyze positive change across the organization.
-Inspire peak performance and achieve market leadership.

"Margaret is an expert in the field of culture change and development. Her work has helped thousands of people across companies heal trust, mend broken relationships, and create space for people to start working together more effectively. Her real stories and experiences combine with research to create an authentic and powerful resource. This is the book every leader needs to read!" -Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life.

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Author Biography

Margaret “Magi” Graziano is the founder and CEO of KeenAlignment, named an Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. She lives and breathes culture. With contagious energy and undeniable candor, Magi has helped hundreds of companies build intentional, healthy, high-performance organizational cultures. Named one of Silicon Valley’s Top 100 Influential Women in Business, Magi has more than 20 years of experience and is a pioneer in the conscious leadership and cultural alignment movements. Magi’s groundbreaking work is driven by her passion to ignite human potential at work.

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Author Insight

Another Key to Presence: Childlike Wonder

Childlike wonder is being completely immersed in the world around you. It’s about coming from an open/neutral perspective, getting curious, asking questions, and being aware of when you are judging and evaluating. Many people become entrenched in their perspectives, beliefs, preferences, points of view, etc. as they grow up. To be fully present with others, you have to let go of your inherent or historical biases. Otherwise, It’s as if you are viewing the world with orange tinted glasses. Everything you experience is tinted orange because that’s how you see and perceive. In this mindset, you won’t be able to accept new and different ideas, or engage with others you speak to. When it comes to childlike wonder, it’s about setting aside all biases, agendas, perceptions, and beliefs about how things are going to go and being curious so you can truly connect and interact with others as an “empty vessel”. When you are empty of perceptions, preferences, judgements, biases and beliefs, you are truly able to meet people where they are and enable them to not only feel like they are contributing, but to actually contribute.

Book Excerpt

Ignite Culture

Embrace childlike wonder. As very young children, we are completely immersed in the world around us. We are constantly observing, interacting, and learning. Our senses are fully engaged. We have endless curiosity. We might become fascinated with a worm or a butterfly or a dandelion. We ask a lot of questions. Why does the sun come up in the morning? How do people get taller? What’s bigger than an elephant? Why does my brother have blue eyes when mine are brown? We question everything because we exist in a constant state of exploration. We try . . . we stumble . . . we learn . . . we grow . . . we try again . . . we stumble . . . we learn . . . we keep growing. No judgement. No regret. That’s just the day-to-day life of the average toddler. Youngsters are never bored because the world is full of wonder and opportunities to explore. But, somewhere along the way, this changes. As we age, we become less observant, more disengaged, and more set in our ways. We get so used to our daily routines and surroundings that we stop noticing them. Our sense of childlike wonder goes into hibernation. We may be more mature, but we’re less fully alive. Through intentional work, this slide into going through the motions can be reversed, and that childlike spirit of wonder can be reawakened. There’s nothing childish about childlike wonder. It’s an energy source worth your attention as a leader.

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Margaret Graziano

Ignite Culture

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Another Key to Presence: Childlike Wonder

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Ignite Culture

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