A short motivational talk by Jim Johnson about the importance of belonging and camaraderie within teams. He argues that genuine belonging leads employees to choose to be together both at work and socially, enabling collaboration toward a shared mission; without cultural alignment, strategy alone cannot secure long-term business success.
I'll tell you how you know if belonging is working. Your team wants to be at the office and in community with everybody else. When they're outside of work, they're hanging out with each other. They want to be with you. That camaraderie is what you're looking for. And that's one of those words I don't think we see as much of anymore. And I think it's one of those things that people are starving for. They're in these little silos right now of their own little world and technology. They're missing something in life, and it's this idea of belonging to something that's on their own, they could never achieve together. It's called collaboration to achieve greatness and impact. If you belong to something like that, you don't ever want to leave. So this is your. Your culture health test or strength test. Are you strong in your culture? If you're not, you're running a risk whether your company is going to achieve that ultimate dream that you were after, because I don't care how much strategy you have, if the culture's not in alignment, all headed together, all willing to crawl through glass for each other to achieve the goals, to achieve the mission. You're running a risk of either having a business that you hate or not having a business.
