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Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love

Josh Levine

IN GREAT MONDAYS, AWARD-WINNING BRAND STRATEGIST JOSH LEVINE PROVIDES A PROVEN FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING AND MANAGING A COMPANY CULTURE TO MAXIMIZE RETENTION AND PERFORMANCE.

For more than 15 years, Levine has helped leaders at Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat, Toyota, Credit Karma, UCSF, IBM and other companies build stronger work cultures. Here, he identifies the six key components of workplace culture, illustrating their connection to one another and how they drive an organization's ability to find, keep, and support the best employees.

PURPOSE → the motivating force-the North Star of an organization that both inspires and guides

VALUES → the powerful culture guardrails that establish behavioral expectations of employees and leaders

BEHAVIORS → the culturally-aligned actions of a work culture

RECOGNITION → the ways in which organizations support and incentivize values-aligned behaviors

RITUALS → the activities that create and strengthen the synapses of culture: relationships

CUES → The reminders designed to keep everyone connected to the organization's future

Each component is brought to life through contemporary case studies and success stories ranging from Silicon Valley startups to leading nonprofits, universities, and major corporations. Leaders of all levels will find expert guidance and proven strategies they can put to use to create a dynamic culture where employees thrive and business grows.

Book Details

  • Publisher: GM Publishing
  • Publish Date: Mar 31st, 2025
  • Pages: 222
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.60in - 0.89lb
  • EAN: 9798218619107
  • Categories: Management - GeneralSelf-Management - General

About the Author

Levine, Josh: - Josh Levine is one of North America's leading voices championing the power of culture to improve employees' lives and companies' bottom lines. He is the principal of Great Mondays, a culture consulting group specializing in hyper-growth technology firms. Levine is a professional speaker and adjunct professor at California College of Arts, teaching Organizational Culture in the MBA program. He partners with ambitious leaders to align their cultures with their business strategy to drive engagement, increase retention, and prepare for their next stage of growth. Professional highlights include founding and running the West Coast's first culture-focused consulting firm in 2008, creating and implementing the transition management strategy for a global medical device company of 8000+ FTEs, and developing a multi-phased culture strategy in preparation for a SaaS firm's successful IPO. Levine is the author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, which BookAuthority listed as one of the best culture books of all time. He has written for Forbes and Fast Company and appeared on APM's Marketplace and many business and leadership podcasts. Levine holds a BS in Engineering Psychology from Tufts University and a BFA in design from the Academy of Art University.

Praise for this book

Josh gets it! In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world we live in, a company's culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage they have. Great Mondays provides anyone-from CEO to frontline associate-a playbook on how to maintain, grow, and evolve a healthy company culture. From personal stories to case studies, Josh illustrates that conversations around culture can be fun and inspiring. If you want to understand more of what culture is and what you can do to help your own company's culture, read this book.

JIM WHITEHURST

President, IBM

Author of The Open Organization

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When your culture is off, it can feel amorphous and unmanageable,

no matter how bad you want it to change. Josh has changed

stagnant cultures into dynamic, healthy, blossoming ones, and now

you can too by taking on his designer's mindset. I know, because he

helped us to do it.

BRANDON SCHAUER

Former Head of Enterprise Design, Capital One

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Reporting from the high seas of management consulting, Levine

shows why "culture is the keel of business." He generously shares

his insights, case studies, and workshop exercises with employers

eager to turn reluctant conscripts into motivated volunteers. A

must- read for progressive leaders.

MARTY NEUMEIER

Author of The Brand Gap, The Brand Flip, and Zag

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I pulled up my copy of Josh Levine's new book Great Mondays on a

Monday morning and it made my day. Josh speaks with an authoritative

voice honed by years of serious work with culture leaders. He

weaves together resonant strands of thought leadership with practical

exercises to create organizational culture designs that people

will appreciate any day of the week. If you care about company culture,

this book is indispensable.

DOUG KIRKPATRICK

Author of Beyond Empowerment and

From Hierarchy to High Performance

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Building a great culture is easier said than done, but Great Mondays

finally shows us how. Josh Levine's style is as informative as it is

delightful in this digestible and actionable "how to" on company

culture. From small business owners to line managers to executives,

this book is for anyone who cares about their culture and

wants to do something to make it better.

LAURA PUTNAM

Author of Workplace Wellness That Works,

Founder of Motion Infusion

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A must-read for HR leaders, culture champions, and anyone looking

to attract, retain, and engage the next generation of talent.

ADAM SMILEY POSWOLSKY

Author of The Quarter- Life Breakthrough