Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work, paperback 2019, reviewed

By @SimonCocking review of Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work, available here from Amazon. See more book reviews here.

Culture is the key to success for every organisation, but what do great cultures do and what makes them successful? In Culture Fix, author Colin D Ellis shows you how to change the way you do things and create a winning culture that will keep your organisation relevant today and into the future.

No matter your business, industry or country, your culture’s success depends on the emotional intelligence and engagement of people within it. Whether you’re a CEO, a manager, or a team leader, this comprehensive playbook provides everything you need to build self-motivating teams capable of delivering great value and great employee experiences for your organisation.

Many organisations lack the knowledge for creating cultures that are uniquely suited for their people. Culture Fix offers real-world solutions to problems of culture change in organisations and teams of all types and sizes.

• build an aspirational vision for your organisation or team
• create a set of values that mean something
• enhance the communication between your people
• adopt the mindsets and behaviours for a successful culture
• create the right environment for innovation and creativity.

Practical, insightful, honest and funny, Culture Fix: How to create a great place to work will show you how to create a workplace where great people can accomplish great things.

Book review : Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work

Cul-cha’, we all know how to say it, we know what is a good one, and what is a bad one, but how to create one that does not suck in your own workplace? Much harder! Ricky Gervais and the Office did a wonderful job of showing just how awful a boss can be, and how they can have such a detrimental impact on the office too – even when they think they are the life and soul of the party too. We’ve had several books about work place culture now cross our desks this year, so it is clearly a trending topic too.

Colin Ellis approaches this topic well and addresses the challenge of articulating and describing what good and bad looks like. His prose is accessible and engaging too, and not jargon heavy or too dry or academic in the insights he is trying to get across. The book is short enough to be a useful quick read too, and as it is written from a slightly Austrailian perspective it does manage to bring in some different insights from the usual US/UK perspective, and it does well in factoring in Asian facing considerations too.

There are useful case studies, and Ellis also aims to address the human elements too which will always be critical too in any successful cultural overhaul of an organisation. His example of Man United is interesting, but at the same time illustrates the vagaries of what is, and is not succesful.

Many would now say that Man U are in a period of a less than successful cultural ethos at the moment. While Solskjaer achieved a brief run of success it now looks like the overall impact of a near decade of under investment and multiple managerial upheavals is now cumulating in a systemic and ongoing cultural failure at the club. This is of course the value of a discussion on what is good culture, what works, and what is failing. Read Culuture Fix and draw your own conclusions.

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