In Episode 046 of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast: Mark Whitmore and David Quick have a discussion on Culture Index, Vistage, and hiring. Part 1 of 2.

Here is a link for Culture Index to take a survey: https://surveys.cultureindex.com/s/69AC7B0000/26716

0:00 Intro

1:18 How did you get into coaching?

6:21 Book reference - It’s Your Ship by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff 

11:38 Talk about your involvement with Vistage https://www.vistage.com 

12:36 Shoutout to Jean Lauterbach with Vistage  

15:13 Reference to Junto or the Leather Apron - Ben Franklin

15:59 Book Reference - Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

16:53 Book reference - Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything by Hermann Simon

17:30 Book Reference - Think Again Adam Grant

19:51 Book reference - Culture Code by Dan Coyle

20:55 Introduction to Culture Index https://www.cultureindex.com

24:57 What Culture Index does really well…

• Adds data and objectivity to the hiring process

28:05 What does Culture Index measure?

   7 key work-related traits

• Autonomy


• Social ability


• Patience


• Conformity


• Logic


• Ingenuity


• Energy units

30:02 Assessment scores, looks like a curved shape

  4 Groups: 

• Visionary


• Technical Research


• Social


• Organizational

  Along with 19 Patterns ranging from things like Daredevil to Traditionalist

31:42 Explain the dots on the graph

34:37 How to take the assessment 

           Start with no-cost demo, takes 10 minutes to take
  https://surveys.cultureindex.com/s/69AC7B0000/26716

41:11 How does Culture Index compare to some of the other big assessment tools out there?

43:49 What are some keys to seeing this as some neat new tool to something that is valuable?

48:45 What was your journey like with a second in command?

51:06 The architect 

55:05 Every assessment profile has value and every profile has tax

56:07 “There are no solutions, only trade-offs” - Thomas Sowell

58:20 Heroic and anti-heroic traits

59:08 It seems that most of the assessments don’t take about character

1:03:30 Why do entrepreneurs have a hard time implementing some of these tools?

1:08:41 Good resources for the hiring process…

• Book reference - Who by Geoff Smart


• “Can you find a better first baseman”

1:12:08 Book references - The Advantage and Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni 

1:12:56 “We’re all willing to sweep floors”

** Credits**
Music - Once in a lifetime by the Talking Heads

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