150 - How Top Companies Build Winning Cultures: Simon Taylor (Head of Organization Effectiveness, Gap)

Simon Taylor, Head of Organizational Effectiveness at Gap, joined us on The Modern People Leader.  He shared the three steps to building a high performance culture, the three things all leaders need to do really well, and the commonalities that he’s noticed among the top performing companies. ---- This episode was brought to you by Leapsome. Explore their intelligent HR platform here. ---- Pre-order his book Build Smart: A Blueprint for Building a High-Performing Organization ---- Timestamps: (1:55) Good news stories (7:50) Chasing his childhood dream of moving to America (11:29) What you do in Organizational Effectiveness (13:12) Why we should be jealous Simon gets to work for the Gap (14:30) Culture change is the number two priority for Global HR leaders right now (18:43) The conflation between values and culture (22:17) The 3 steps to building a high performance culture (27:35) Shoring up sponsorship for culture initiatives with your leaders first (33:30) His experience writing his first book (35:03) Commonalities among the top performing companies  (37:52) The three things all leaders need to do really well (49:04) How Simon identified his playbook for building a high performance organization (50:37) The four pillars of building and managing a high performance organization (53:46) Biohacking (1:03:40) Rapid fire questions (1:07:44) Build Smart: A blueprint for building a high performing organization ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn