Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2021 · No. 28

Strengthening Culture With Individuality

Mony Iyer

From the recording

The value in strengthening culture by unleashing individuality really comes from allowing people to do their best when they're not worried about how they're perceived.

Mony Iyer

About this episode

Mony Iyer, chief operating officer at Banfield Pet Hospital, believes people do their best work when they stop worrying about how they're perceived. He described a support tool his headquarters team built that landed with a thud in the hospitals; they took the feedback, rebuilt it and earned rave reviews. He spent two weeks working in a hospital during onboarding and still runs monthly listening tours. People should be judged on how they work and what they deliver, he said.

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