From the course: Former Fortune 100 CEO Ron Williams (Thirty Minute Mentors)

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Building a winning team and culture

Building a winning team and culture

- And Ron, you mentioned a couple of other really important points that I want to dig deeper on. You were able to turn the culture around, and you were really able to improve the human capital within the organization. Firstly, what are the keys to building a winning organizational culture? And secondly, what are your best tips on the topic of hiring? - I would say in terms of cultural transformation, one of the things that's really critical is to create a culture where you can have frank honest conversations with your team and with the entire organization about the challenges the company faces, and that they're going to get straight plain English answers. A turning point for me was very early in my career there, we had this huge town hall meeting, and we were presenting the dire circumstances we were in and the plan we had laid out, and one woman who stood up and had a question, and I called on her and I said,…

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