The Company Culture Cookbook: How to Change the Way We Do Things Around Here

by Kevin M. Thompson

Great organizations are not the products of great they are the products of great cultures. Strong leaders may come and go, but great cultures endure. Simply put, when it comes to corporate culture, The Company Culture Cookbook is the ultimate "walk the talk" book. Kevin Thomson demonstrates exactly how to move beyond the soft issues of "hearts and minds," and focus on "real behaviors." He distills today's best techniques for building great cultures into 40 simple recipes, 20 key ingredients, and 17 core personality profiles managers can begin using immediately to achieve breakthrough results. These specific, proven steps are designed to ensure that everyone in your business is committed to your brand values and company objectives, and is innovating to achieve them.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 21, 2002

About the author

Kevin Thompson is an Eagle Scout, member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, has various degrees in marketing and management and a passion for wearing kilts. Kevin founded the Brotherhood of the Kilt in 2007 to provide a supportive gathering place for other "kilties". After many adventures in kilting, including helping to raise the World’s Largest Kilt on the Tulsa Driller, he has donated his summer vacation to the Survival Program at Old Rochester Regional Junior High School since 1988, but he says that nothing brings him joy like his two children. Kevin has recorded his pearls of wisdom about kilting on his website Kiltsrock.com.