Cultivate 2016 San Jose brought together fourteen of the nation’s top strategic design consultants, leadership coaches, and engineering leads to riff cogently on what makes a 21st century business culture work. This video compilation lets you listen in on every seminar delivered at this two day event by the culture enhancers at XPLANE, Team Dynamics Boston, Olsen Solutions, Richer Earth, Maya, Pinterest, Wodtke Consulting, Starfighter, Silicon Valley Data Science, and more. This is a special group with long personal histories of successful product development at companies such as Google, Twitter, DropBox, and GE. They’ve synthesized their victories – and their failures – into a set of leadership methodologies anyone launching a start-up, running a product division, or corralling a fractured enterprise can use to build and nurture a recognizable, sustainable, and profitable business culture.

• See how the LEGO® Serious Play® process weaves disparate thinkers into cohesive teams
• Learn about Culture Maps, a unique tool for identifying culture and improving it over time
• Discern why business cultures that elicit highly specific behaviors produce the best ROI
• Explore how technical on-boarding and mentoring will significantly improve team diversity
• Discover Radical Candor, a management philosophy that can make any boss better
• Understand OKRs and how they’re used to methodically tackle and realize big goals
• Hear how Capture the Flag contests transformed green recruits into a legendary security team
• Pick up practical advice on when and how to scale your engineering teams

Table of contents

• The 21st century leader: Shaping the future – Eric McNulty
• Build to lead: Solve leadership challenges using the Lego Serious Play methodology – Dieter Reuther and Donna Denio
• Culture is your company’s operating system – Dave Gray
• Cross-functional leadership for high-performance product teams – Dan Olsen
• The proven ROI of designing culture – Kristi Woolsey
• There’s nothing basic about the basics of leadership – Michael Lopp
• The importance of technical onboarding, training, and mentoring – Kate Heddleston
• Radical candor: Be a better boss – Kim Scott
• Accomplish big goals with objectives and key results – Christina Wodtke
• Hiring engineers shouldn’t hurt – Erin Ptacek
• Scaling teams – David Loftesness
• Hard questions, honest answers – Camille Fournier
• How to eat change for breakfast: Building an experimental enterprise – Sanjay Mathur