Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/1FoRUTS. Helen Walton and Pete Burden offer insight into how important culture is to a business and happiness, the inspiration to recognize the type of culture one wants to build and the practical tools needed to make a vision become reality. Filmed at qconlondon.com. Helen Walton is co-founder of Gamevy, a tech start-up bringing gameshows online and who recently launched their first game on Facebook – Blackjack Attack. Pete Burden is Change Agent at ConsciousBusinessPeople.

1. Dream Job?
The Culture you Want
Helen Walton and Pete Burden

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Strategy
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4. Be
Present

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Culture fail
Lack of experience
External pressure
Communication problem
Inability to change
Lack of management support
Don't know
Reasons Projects Fail

33. What to change?
• What frustrates you?
• What bad effects do you witness?
• What poor behaviours do you experience?
• What negative results of impacts do you see?
• Is there a gap between what the organisation
says, and what it does?

35. Advocacy and Enquiry
• Groups of 3
• Identify a cultural issue
• Practise enquiring into the issue
• 2 enquire
• 1 help if enquiry slips to advocacy

36. Enquiry
• What stops this happening a better way?
• What might the cause - or causes be?
• What are the cultural conditions that means this
happens?
• What do other people do?
• How do other people contribute to this issue?
• How am I invested in the cultural issue?
• What would doing things differently mean giving
up?

39. Three Tasks
• What is your purpose?
• What’s your long-term goal?
• What’s your action in the next 2 weeks?

40. Thank You!
• Share
• Ask for help
• Spark the Change

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journey-culture