Dr. Phillip Meade is passionate about business culture change and his company's Missing Links culture change model. He joins The Savvy Entrepreneur Show to talk about how humans naturally resist change, but also how Gallaher Edge's Missing Links culture change model can help organizations create and follow an effective blueprint.
The Missing Links model has four strands: Maturity, Diversity, Community, and Unity. The Maturity piece is particularly interesting, as it deals with our many human defense mechanisms that resist change. Phillip points out how an entrepreneur or owner's attachment to their business as “their baby” directly leads to challenges in scaling the organization. It's a fascinating look inside the human psyche, and the things we often hide from ourselves!
Meade also talks about the upcoming book that he authored, entitled “The Missing Links: Launching a High Performing Company Culture,” available at Amazon or Barnes & Noble. The book, he says, is intended to both be an overview of business culture, as well as a resource for those who want to attempt culture change on their own.
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