Coaching practices for How Does My Founder Identity Shape My Business Culture and Team Dynamics

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• I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
• There’s a constant low-grade friction between me and the place I work that I can’t name
• We’ve got nice-sounding values up on the wall and the website, but they do nothing in the room when a real hiring or judgment call is on the table
• I lead a team and I’ve realized the people I lean on most are the ones who remind me of myself or are just easy to be around
• If someone asked me right now why I do this

Practices that may help

1. Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
   Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
2. Map the value system of your organization or team
   Identify the vMEME your team or organization actually operates from, not just espouses.
   Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
3. Make core values operational, not decorative
   Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
4. Manage LMX differentiation fairly as a leader
   Acknowledge that you develop different relationships with different people — and ensure the differences are earned, not arbitrary.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
5. Articulate your personal "Why" as a leader
   A leader who cannot state their own purpose clearly cannot communicate it to anyone else.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
6. Use the Why as a decision filter
   A stated Why that doesn’t actually filter decisions is just branding — the Why has to determine the choices.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
7. Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
   Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
8. Distinguish your self from your role
   Separate who you are from the authority position you occupy — your role takes the heat, not you.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
9. Forming: provide clarity before connection
   In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
10. Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
    Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical

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