Best Andreas Konstantinou Podcasts (2025)

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S03E20 Culture Classics: A Tattoo-Worthy Culture that Leaves a Lasting Mark, with Erik Lilla 44:43

6d ago44:43

44:43

“I always think of culture like a garden... We're always in the middle of the journey. There's no real finish line to culture. It's always like that garden. You're always replanting it. You're always finding new crops. You're finding a new kind of seed to plant. And sometimes it doesn't work out and it's a failure. That's okay, too. There's learnin…

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S03E20 Your People are your Business: A Family-First Culture, with Tracy Marlowe 30:16

13d ago30:16

30:16

“I think that when your people really believe that you care for them, they show up every single day, and they give you 110%... Your people are your business. At the end of the day, as a leader or owner you're just one person. Your people are the face of your company. And if you really breathe life into them and you support them and you actually car…

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S03E19 Culture Classics: A Strong Culture is Like a Cult, with Verne Harnish 31:08

20d ago31:08

31:08

“Is it companies who put employees first? Do they perform better than companies who put customers first? Or those that put stakeholders first? I thought it was a fundamental question needed to be answered. And the answer [that came through John Kotter’s research] surprised everybody… The companies that outperformed by a factor of 10 were those that…

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S03E18 From Authority to Empathy: Leading with Open Heart, Open Mind, with Shivani Gupta 42:02

27d ago42:02

42:02

“People are always looking for three things. They look for something to believe in, which is the vision. They look for someone to believe in, which is a leader, and then they're looking for someone to believe in them, which is their self-worth.” S03E18 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Shivani Gupta, engineer-turned-entrepreneu…

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S03E17 Culture Classics: Two Fish in a Pond: Swimming in Culture, with Miren Oca 43:06

1M ago43:06

43:06

“I think that culture has always been there… There are two fish swimming in a pond, and a bigger fish swims past them and says, “How's the water?” And when he swims away, the fish look at each other and say, “What's water?” Culture is always there. It's always around you. You can feel it, but you don't even realize you're in it.” We're republishing…

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S03E16 How Autonomy Leads to a Better Way, with Dunia Reverter 41:20

1M ago41:20

41:20

“If you think your team or your organization are not working well, are not doing things, are not to be trusted, are not ready for this, there's something in you here that is all of that. So what in you needs to change, so this space appears for the rest of the team to rise? Be hungry for the collective intelligence to arise. Be happy when you join …

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S03E15 Culture Classics: Aligning what you think, say and do: Where culture meets values, with Robert Glazer 43:53

2M ago43:53

43:53

“Who you choose as your partner, what you choose as your vacation or your place of work, or the community you choose to live in, I think if these are not aligned to your values, you have a very low chance of success in the long run.” We're republishing one of our "Culture Classics" with Robert Glazer, founder and chairman of Acceleration Partners, …

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S03E14 Treating Employees as Nice as You Treat Customers, with Stephan Meier 45:58

2M ago45:58

45:58

“What really changed was the experience during the pandemic. The pandemic, in my view, put a very bright spotlight on things that are not working in society as well, put a spotlight on inequalities that exist in society. But it also put a stark spotlight on what is not working in the workplace, why people are actually quitting, why they're frustrat…

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S03E13 Letting Go of the "Mum Role" as a Leader, with Helen Sanderson 43:27

2M ago43:27

43:27

“I think my deepest ambition for work is that it's a place where we don't just have well-being, but we have well-being in its true sense, great social connections, great relationships. It's not lonely anymore. It's not miserable. That we support each other and challenge each other, but it's also a place of personal growth and development… And that …

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S03E12 Culture Classics: Culture needs to meet strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner with Spencer Harrison 53:44

3M ago53:44

53:44

"The best organizations will win the battle for talent by creating cultures that allow people to be their best more frequently. And that means one of your practices as a leader needs to be gathering stories that tell you when your people are at their best." We're republishing one of our "Culture Classics" with Spencer Harrison, a professor of organ…

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S03E11 From Followers to Leaders: The Magic of Self-Management, with Natacha Neumann 50:07

3M ago50:07

50:07

“At some point in the Industrial Revolution, it made sense that we create humans that conform and just produce. In our day and age we need to go back to what makes us human, especially with AI taking over all those manual processes. We need to relearn to be the children now. To be creative, to be human, to have human connections… Whatever happens, …

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S03E10 Purposeful Workplace Culture and the Impact of Micro-Giving, with Masami Sato 40:29

4M ago40:29

40:29

“It's not about charity, it's about impact… unlocking the human potential through making people see that enormous power they have in making a difference.” S03E10 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Masami Sato, founder of B1G1, a global social enterprise dedicated to integrating impactful giving into everyday business operations.…

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S03E09 Designing a Net Positive Culture with Co-creation, with Ulla Sommerfelt 46:37

4M ago46:37

46:37

“We know that our P&Ls have to yield a net positive financial result, but I think also businesses need to yield a net positive people result… Net positive just means giving more than you take… When you use co-creation… people feel ownership and you don’t have to explain or implement it afterwards because when you’ve co-created, everybody is involve…

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S03E08 The Five Pillars of a Thriving Workplace Culture, with Elizabeth Dixon 42:59

5M ago42:59

42:59

“The magic… is what happens between that frontline employee and the customer… the outcome is impact. It’s impact on people’s lives. And ultimately that impact, it drives business success. The framework to get there is to choose your mindset, create your culture, know your customer, define your differentiator, and pursue innovation and iteration. An…

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S03E07 From a ‘Win at All Cost’ to a Caring Culture, with Jason Lippert 45:38

6M ago45:38

45:38

"I can tell you from experience of… 11 years in a healthy, good culture way versus, winning at all costs... It feels a lot easier. And winning comes a lot easier. It’s a lot more fun. I’ve developed a lot more meaningful relationships in the business… people stay longer because they like it here... Don’t underestimate the power of impact that you c…

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S03E06 What the Data Says: The Traits of Exceptional Managers, with Jim Harter 46:50

6M ago46:50

46:50

"We found that there are some common traits in great managers… The best ones are really good motivators… sometimes they have to make tough decisions, but they're good at influencing people by helping to convince them why they are excellent… The best practice organizations… they have a really good intentional process for developing their… highly eff…

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S03E05 Culture Lessons from Airbnb to Zappos, with Joseph Michelli PhD 40:26

6M ago40:26

40:26

“You see companies: “I'm going to put a… ping pong table in the break room… and I'm going to have a massage therapist come in and do chair massages…” Those are all nice amenities, but they aren't culture… Culture… is the force that keeps everything together… Some people never get that, they never understand this is necessary… But if… they want to s…

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S03E04 Building a Culture of Resilience & Perseverance, One Mountaintop at a Time, with Seth Casden 38:43

7M ago38:43

38:43

"If you're not happy and you're not enjoying your environment, it's going to be hard to feel fulfilled… I tried a few different things, and they didn't work out… I think that really helped build my resilience and helped teach me that maybe the world judges successes and failures based on outcome. But it helped me create a deeper meaning for myself …

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S03E03 People Before Profit: Lessons from Real Estate, with lisa wise 44:51

7M ago44:51

44:51

"It feels good to do good with your business. I think we underestimate ourselves as businesspeople and the impact that we can have on people in the world. And we look at politicians and policy, and we look at the slow going, and the barriers to things changing. If we want a more just and equitable future, where all of us can thrive and seek opportu…

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S03E02 Organizational Democracy, Freedom-Centered Leadership, and the Power of Self-Worth, with Traci Fenton 45:31

8M ago45:31

45:31

"High self-worth leaders want to create environments where everyone can flourish. Low self-worth leaders create environments that control people. So, if they're willing to work on their self-worth… we can build a democratic company in a Democratic Leadership style… seeing how employees feel differently when they work in a WorldBlu certified freedom…

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S03E01, How Leaders can Heal the Brokenness of the World, with Bob Chapman 49:55

8M ago49:55

49:55

"I present a vision of the world the way it was meant to be… As we come together in organizations, we need leaders who know how to be good stewards of the people who join this organization, and we send them home fulfilled each night, which will create better families, heal the brokenness we're seeing in our communities… We could heal the brokenness…

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S02E21 Prioritizing People and the Power of Play, with Kristi Herold 36:26

9M ago36:26

36:26

"I learned a very hard lesson in my early twenties when I was running my painting business. I had a lot of my painters quit partway through the summer and I didn't understand why they were quitting on me… I was dictating. I wasn't inspiring them. I wasn't sharing my vision with them or my goals. I wasn't treating them like teammates. I was being a …

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S02E20 Culture Classics: How to craft company values with Will Scott 46:11

9M ago46:11

46:11

"If leaders are willing to be vulnerable and listen to their employees.. those are cultures which empower everyone to feel safe and to bring their whole selves to work... A lot of leaders are still trying to hide behind stuff.. and they are not sleeping well at night. The most peaceful place for a leader to be is to have stated values and then can …

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S02E19 Return Joy to the Workplace, with Rich Sheridan 49:39

10M ago49:39

49:39

"We founded the company with a crazy big mission. We wanted to end human suffering in the world as it relates to technology, by returning joy to both technology and to the teams that design it and build it… I had this picture in my head of, what do I want my work life to look like? And I thought… a big opening collaborative work environment, a plac…

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S02E18 Creating a Safe Space that Loves the 5-Year-Old You and Helps them Grow , with Lisa Gill 51:23

10M ago51:23

51:23

"I always hesitate a bit when organizations are like, happiness, happiness, happiness… because our pitfalls will never go away… I will always have those pitfalls. But if I can become conscious and intentional, then I can start to own my pitfalls instead of my pitfalls owning me. And I can start to take responsibility for them… We can talk about it …

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S02E17 Cooking an Authentic, Fulfilling, and Positive Culture, with Gustavo Razzetti 46:11

11M ago46:11

46:11

"Leaders are usually less perfect than we were taught, or books tell us about them because leading is a very complicated thing… I always like to joke with my clients… when they say, we don't know how we're going to take our culture to the next level. I tell them, give me the ingredients you have, and I'm going to help you out the same way that some…

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S02E16 Creating an Organization without Managers, One Step at a Time, with Nathan Donaldson 49:10

11M ago49:10

49:10

"You can't be productive unless your team is happy… It's not the foosball tables and the perks. It's that deeper happiness that comes from doing some meaningful work for people that you like and respect, working with people that you like and respect." S02E16 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Nathan Donaldson from New Zealand. N…

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S02E15 The War for Talent is a Victim Mindset, with Dominic Monkhouse 51:44

12M ago51:44

51:44

"As a manager, as a leader… one of your goals is to build the best team that you can afford… So when people say, I can't attract any talent… it's not the talent's fault. Just because you have a job… just because you have a vacancy, there is no God-given right for amazing people to show up at your door and apply for it… Are you a shit place to work …

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S02E14 Hiring and Accepting People from Every Walk of Life, with Gina Schaefer 46:11

1y ago46:11

46:11

"I think business owners have to really rethink who and how they hire, our judgments, our biases, and what as a society we can do, even as a small business like mine, to make it a more vibrant and equitable place... I wanted to make sure that we were treating everybody, no matter what their background was, where they were from, what language they s…

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S02E13 A Culture of Love, not Fear, with David Henzel 39:12

1y ago39:12

39:12

"If you're not properly leading yourself, it's hard to lead others... How you do one thing is how you do everything. And if… the three areas of your life, if they're in order, if… yourself, mind, body, spirit is good and your family and relationships is good, then it's much easier to be good in the work world." S02E13 of the Rethink Culture podcast…

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S02E12 Creating a strong culture through an ownership mindset, with Kerry Siggins 50:48

1y ago50:48

50:48

"What I would tell a leader is that culture starts with you, but it's made up of the collective. You have to set the tone for it and be that role model. You have to inspire people to be their greatest. Don't be afraid to put your people first… You have to be intentional about it… So don't tolerate people who are taking away from the culture… You ar…

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S02E11 A Culture that Attracts Rock Stars, with Jeff Hoffman 44:32

1y ago44:32

44:32

"I tell founders this all the time, your goal is to build the company, the environment, to build the place where all the best people in your industry want to work and never want to leave." S02E11 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Jeff Hoffman, a successful entrepreneur, CEO, motivational speaker, and Hollywood film producer. He…

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S02E10 The ups and downs of scaling culture, with Wendy van Ierschot 44:59

1y ago44:59

44:59

"If it was easy to become a great leader, we would have totally different politics, totally different companies, totally different burnout rates… "Okay, interesting, why is it so difficult for me?" I think investigating that makes us humans. And that makes you also a better leader if you understand what happens inside yourself. It's also easier to …

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S02E09 Culture needs to meet strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner and the after party, with Spencer Harrison 53:44

1y ago53:44

53:44

"The best organizations will win the battle for talent by creating cultures that allow people to be their best more frequently. And that means one of your practices as a leader needs to be gathering stories that tell you when your people are at their best." S02E09 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Spencer Harrison, a professor …

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S02E08 No leader should lead alone, with Sandy Hall 49:33

1y ago49:33

49:33

"No leader should lead alone. … they need a peer group, they need people they can share with, they need to be continually learning and developing, and they need … a support network. It's very easy for a leader to get to a point in their career where they know themselves well, they can be self-aware, they can develop the skills and be a passionate a…

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S02E07 From Troublemaker to Entrepreneur, with Bruce Sullivan (thank you Mrs Evans) 51:27

1+ y ago51:27

51:27

"I always ask people right from the start to talk to me and decide what you want to be famous for… So, what's your intention in terms of that space and getting tasks done? … What's your intention in terms of the relationships that you want to have? What's your intention for the reputation of the team that you will serve?" S02E07 of the Rethink Cult…

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S02E06 A Workplace Culture of Accountability and Vulnerability, with Ron Lovett 48:34

1+ y ago48:34

48:34

"If you're listening, you're on one or the other side of this quote, and the quote is, none of us will build great companies. We will lead incredible people who will build great companies. You either agree with that or you don't… It's a choice. It's a conscious choice." S02E06 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Canadian entrepre…

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S02E05 Leading with compassion and a culture of accountability, with Brian Brault 50:59

1+ y ago50:59

50:59

“You lead human beings and human beings have lives and sometimes those lives are going really well and other times are dealing with challenges. Recognize the humanity in the people that you lead… If we lean in with curiosity and lean in with compassion first and we make people feel like they are genuinely cared about and valued as part of our team,…

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S02E04 100 days to feel seen, heard and valued, with Joey Coleman 51:34

1+ y ago51:34

51:34

“In the first 100 days in most organizations, employees feel overwhelmed. They feel unconnected. They feel unseen, unheard, unappreciated … I think lots of times leaders will say, well, it will be better if we're all back in the office. Why? What proof do you have? What data do you have? Because as we look anecdotally at anecdata or we look systemi…

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S02E03 A Culture of Caring, Not Popcorn, with Garry Ridge 38:03

1+ y ago38:03

38:03

"Culture is not about popcorn, peanuts, ping pong. It's about having a heart of gold and a backbone of steel. […] Be a caring organization […] It's a balance between being tough minded and tenderhearted. […] It's simple, it's not easy, and time is not your friend." Episode S02E03 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on the incredible…

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S02E02 A Culture of "Strong Convictions, Loosely Held", with Byron Darlison 43:52

1+ y ago43:52

43:52

“The thing to be careful about, which always worried me, was just drinking your own Kool-Aid too much… “strong convictions, loosely held” the value of the company, which means that this is our culture, this is how we do things. We're very, very committed to this... if you come along and you speak a truth that's going to improve or… invalidate somet…

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S02E01 A Tattoo-Worthy Culture that Leaves a Lasting Mark, with Erik Lilla 44:43

1+ y ago44:43

44:43

"I always think of culture like a garden. […] We're always in the middle of the journey. There's no real finish line to culture. It's always like that garden. You're always replanting it. You're always finding new crops. You're finding a new kind of seed to plant. And sometimes it doesn't work out and it's a failure. That's OK, too. There's learnin…

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S01E12 A Strong Culture is Like a Cult, with Verne Harnish 31:08

1+ y ago31:08

31:08

“Is it companies who put employees first? Do they perform better than companies who put customers first? Or those that put stakeholders first?. I thought it was a fundamental question needed to be answered. And the answer [the came through John Kotter’s research] surprised everybody… The companies that outperformed by a factor of 10 were those that…

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S01E11 Two Fish in a Pond: Swimming in Culture, with Miren Oca 43:06

1+ y ago43:06

43:06

“I think that culture has always been there […] There are two fish swimming in a pond, and a bigger fish swims past them and says, “How's the water?”. And when he swims away, the fish look at each other and say, “What's water?” […] Culture is always there. It's always around you. You can feel it, but you don't even realize you're in it.” S01E11 of …

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S01E10 Aligning what you think, say and do: Where culture meets values with Robert Glazer 43:53

1+ y ago43:53

43:53

“Who you choose as your partner, what you choose as your vacation or your place of work, or the community you choose to live in, I think if these are not aligned to your values, you have a very low chance of success in the long run.” S01E10 of the Rethink Culture podcast shines the spotlight on Robert Glazer, founder and chairman of Acceleration Pa…

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S01E09 Instilling a culture of amazing service with Gene Browne: waste management, how not to treat your customers, and flowered apologies 45:38

2y ago45:38

45:38

“We ‘re a service business that just happens to to collect waste. I never get out of the bed in the morning thinking I’ m in the waste industry. Never, ever, ever. I don’t go to the waste management trade shows. Personally I can’t think of anything worse to do. It doesn’t inspire me. But I will read every book about the service industry. I wanna kn…

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S01E08 Creating a safe space for employees by getting rid of the micromanager within, with Dillon Jearey 48:25

2y ago48:25

48:25

“The first thing that I needed to do was to start creating a safe space for my staff to challenge me. The harder part was for my staff to fail. And sometimes when they failed, we lost clients. And that was really bitter, bitter pills to swallow. But I realised very quickly that if I was to create the safe space, I had to stop micromanaging. Because…

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S01E07 Decoding Employee Happiness with David Niu: Transparency, Global Talent and Oscar Statuettes 34:56

2y ago34:56

34:56

“Why should I constrain myself with Seattle’s geographic region when I can get talent throughout the world. Yes, it’s more challenging and I have to do more processes and technology to facilitate, but I believe fundamentally that there’s more talent that I can access and that outweighs having geographic proximity to the office.” S01E07 of the Rethi…

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S01E06 Transforming from an ego-driven boss to a selfless leader in just 20 years, with Arnie Malham 34:46

2y ago34:46

34:46

“The culture I had at the time was the wrong culture, but it was the culture I deserved. It wasn’t my people. It wasn’t my clients. It wasn’t the environment. It wasn’t the economy. It was me. It was me trying to be the boss, to drive my team as opposed to the leader to lead my team” S01E06 of the Rethink Culture podcast features Arnie Malham, auth…

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S01E05 The two key principles of autonomous organisations - with Mehmet Yitmen 42:04

2y ago42:04

42:04

In S01E05 of the Rethink Culture podcast, Mehmet Yitmen, co-founder at ACM Agile, talks about the principles of autonomous organisations and the process he uses to transform traditional hierarchical organisations into self-organising ones. Yitmen has worked with tens of organisations in Europe and the Middle East to transform them using agile and s…

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