Culture and the customer experience

I often like to take care of an errand during my morning walk. It saves on gas and gives the walk a direction and purpose. This morning, I decided to walk over to the bank to close my account, having recently changed to a new bank. I looked on the web to see what time the branch opened – 7:30am. I arrived at the bank at 8:15 to find that only the drive-up opens at 7:30; the lobby opens at 9:00. Fine, I thought.

Can you build an organization on love?

“In every situation, you must lead with your real self, because if you’re going to be on the leading edge of management, you sometimes must be on the emotional edge as well.”
James Autry (author of Servant Leadership)

Words like “emotion” and “love” are not part of our mainstream leadership vocabulary. So I want to ask you, can you build an organization on love?