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Change the Culture, Change the Game

The Breakthrough Strategy For Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability For Results

Roger Connors and Tom Smith

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Culture of Accountability+
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Leadership Skills+
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Question 1 of 7
Why do leaders often fail when trying to change an organization's culture?
  • A. They spend too much time focusing on employee experiences rather than business outcomes.
  • B. They try to change how people act without changing how they think or what they believe.
  • C. They assume culture change is a slow transition rather than a rapid transformation.
  • D. They focus too heavily on the bottom levels of the results pyramid.
Question 2 of 7
According to the results pyramid, what is the correct sequence of components that lead to an organization's achievements?
  • A. Beliefs promote Actions, Actions impact Experiences, Experiences generate Results.
  • B. Actions promote Experiences, Experiences impact Beliefs, Beliefs generate Results.
  • C. Experiences promote Beliefs, Beliefs impact Actions, Actions generate Results.
  • D. Results promote Experiences, Experiences impact Actions, Actions generate Beliefs.
Question 3 of 7
What are the four steps to moving toward 'above the line' accountability?
  • A. See it, Own it, Solve it, Do it
  • B. Plan it, Test it, Fix it, Scale it
  • C. Review it, Accept it, Delegate it, Track it
  • D. Identify it, Communicate it, Facilitate it, Sustain it
Question 4 of 7
How should accountability be viewed within a healthy organizational culture?
  • A. As a reliable method for identifying and punishing underperforming employees.
  • B. As an empowering opportunity to play a starring role in reaching a solution.
  • C. As a top-down mandate that strictly enforces compliance to company policies.
  • D. As a temporary transformation phase to fix immediate financial losses.
Question 5 of 7
What does the 'Fast Grill' example illustrate about driving organizational change?
  • A. The danger of setting profit margins too high for employees to reach.
  • B. The necessity of having a clear, common goal to achieve true alignment.
  • C. The importance of giving employees tokens for good performance.
  • D. The need to hire outside management consultants to facilitate dialogue.
Question 6 of 7
Which of the following is NOT one of the three key leadership skills required to guide a culture change?
  • A. The skill to lead the change directly.
  • B. The skill to respond to feedback.
  • C. The skill to be facilitative and encourage dialogue.
  • D. The skill to delegate the cultural transition entirely to HR.
Question 7 of 7
What is the recommended approach to sustaining a culture change in the long term?
  • A. Continuously integrating the new culture into everyday meetings, systems, and practices.
  • B. Offering massive financial bonuses to employees who adopt the new culture fastest.
  • C. Replacing the lowest-performing employees every quarter until the culture shifts.
  • D. Running constant company-wide transformation events every single week.

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Change the Culture, Change the Game Summary & Overview

Change The Culture, Change The Game (2012) demonstrates how to implement a culture of accountability within your organization. You’ll discover how to help encourage a shift in thinking to get the game-changing results you want and explore the steps needed to sustain such changes.

Who Should Listen to Change the Culture, Change the Game?

  • Anyone interested in managing change
  • Anyone wanting to change their organization’s culture

About the Author: Roger Connors and Tom Smith

Roger Connors and Tom Smith are the co-founders of leadership training and management consulting company, Partners In Leadership, Inc. Together they’ve written three The New York Times bestselling books.

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