Initially I thought this is just a fluff piece with some idealistic goals.
Turns out it has actual, detailed examples of how a leader can cultivate culture. This is super valuable because a lot times it's not intuitive how a leader's action leads to people behaving certain ways.
Kate Matsudaira is an amazing tech leader and writer who covers topics from culture and process, to Distributed Systems and Architecture, I cannot recommend her essays enough.
What kind of culture do you think could pull off such a complex, high-stakes mission that lasted not even fifteen minutes? The entire mission was Livestreamed. It was amazing. History was made. The doors were literally blown off.
The points that the author made in the article are represented in a body of academic study and were validated at companies such as Google some time ago. These aren't her own novel findings, but she does a good job summarizing into a single article.
A lot of what they say is really obvious, except if you are an incredibly toxic individual. The core problem with this is not that it won't work IMO, it's that the right people won't internalise the advice.
If you were genuinely questioning whether this advice makes a difference, I'm happy for you. You've apparently never had to see the examples of where it is not applied. I can tell you from experience that working in a team with one or more toxic leaders is like dying a slow death every day you come to work.
Turns out it has actual, detailed examples of how a leader can cultivate culture. This is super valuable because a lot times it's not intuitive how a leader's action leads to people behaving certain ways.