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#69: The Culture Series: 7 Episodes, One Hard Truth About Leadership
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- Jul 27, 2026
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THE CULTURE SERIES RECAP A 7-part deep dive into what's actually breaking your team — and what fixes it Over the last seven episodes of the MPWR Coaching Podcast, Eric Pfeiffer and Dawn Neldon went all in on one topic: culture. Not the free-snacks, ping-pong-table version of culture. The real one — the one that decides whether your team performs under pressure, stays when things get hard, and actually believes in what you're building. Here's what came out of it. #60 — Why Your "How" Is Undermining Your "What" You can have the right mission, the right goals, the right numbers on the board — and still lose your team, because how you're leading them is quietly working against everything you're trying to build. This episode breaks down the gap between what leaders say they value and how they actually operate day to day, and why that gap is where culture goes to die. #61 — Culture Isn't Ping-Pong Tables Perks aren't culture. Free lunches aren't culture. Culture is what people experience when no one's watching — how decisions get made, how mistakes get handled, whether people feel safe telling the truth. Eric and Dawn dismantle the idea that culture can be bought with amenities and point to what it's actually built from. #62 — The Hidden Culture Problems Destroying Team Performance The most damaging culture problems are rarely loud. They're the unspoken tension, the quiet disengagement, the "that's just how it is here" resignation that never shows up in an engagement survey until it's already cost you your best people. This episode names the patterns leaders miss because they've normalized them. #63 — Culture Is Your Greatest Competitive Advantage Strategy can be copied. Pricing can be matched. Culture can't. This episode makes the business case for treating culture as a gro…