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Ethical fading is a condition in a culture that allows people to act in unethical ways in order to advance their own interests, often at the expense of others, while falsely believing that they have not compromised their own moral principles.

Fast-growing companies with strong product, marketing and balance sheets… often neglect to give time and attention to leadership training or to actively nurturing their culture.

Whenever new tools, procedures, or ways of understanding arise anywhere in the culture, they produce ripples that can have far-reaching and unexpected consequences.

Professions arise when a group of individual practitioners define the specific knowledge, skills, practices, rules, and values that differentiate them from the rest of the culture.

A Badass Business Analyst will open themselves up to new experiences so they can learn. They understand that failure can happen in a safe environment in which to play and experiment.

Our culture needs to change the way we see failure. We must start seeing failure as an opportunity to innovate and not as something bad.

Any exceptional enterprise depends first and foremost upon having self-managed and self-motivated people – the #1 ingredient for a culture of discipline.

A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.

…action items for CEOs: Build a culture that rewards – not punishes – people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.

As a company grows, it will change. No matter how well you set your culture, keep your spirit, or slow-roll your growth, your company won’t be the same when it’s one thousand people as it was when it was ten people.