# #70: You Get What You Tolerate: How to Reset Your Team's Culture Starting Today

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Podcast: [MPWR Podcast | Become The Leader YOU Want To Follow](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mpwr-podcast-become-the-leader-you-want-to-follow-7308599)
Published: 2026-08-03T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

You Get What You Tolerate: How to Reset Your Team's Culture Starting Today Is one negative teammate quietly reshaping your entire office? In this final episode of our culture series, Eric Pfeiffer and Dawn Neldon reveal an uncomfortable truth: whatever attitudes and behaviors you allow on your team, you're actively choosing — whether you meant to or not. As Eric puts it, "leaders define culture for better and for worse," and most of us are shaping it far more than we realize. Eric and Dawn unpack why most leaders have a rigorous process for evaluating whether someone can do the job — but almost no process for evaluating whether they're making the culture better or worse. They introduce the idea of two parallel layers running through every team: organizational culture (how work actually gets done) and individual culture (the personal playbook everyone quietly brings with them). Left unaddressed, that second layer is what erodes trust, breaks down communication, and drives out your healthiest people; long before anyone can pinpoint why. Dawn shares a moment that captures the tension every leader eventually faces — a manager insisting a toxic team member "does everything we ask," even while describing how much damage that person was doing to everyone around them. It's a pattern Eric and Dawn say they see constantly: teams mistaking productivity for permission. Using real coaching conversations and two iconic culture case studies — In-N-Out and Chick-fil-A — Eric and Dawn show what it looks like when a company clearly defines expected attitudes and behaviors, not just job duties. You'll hear the exact two-step framework for turning a struggling culture around: setting a Radical Minimum Standard for behavior, and holding people accountable to it through consistent, positive…

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