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Culture Wins: The Roadmap to an Irresistible Workplace Hardcover – March 20, 2018

by William Vanderbloemen (Author)
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The roadmap to making your company a great place to work in today’s job-hopping culture starts right here.

What could your company accomplish if it could attract and retain employees who buy into your organization’s mission 100%?

Culture Wins is a practical yet challenging modern guidebook for organizations that want to own the future. Its firsthand insights into building a contagious culture will drive sustainable growth and innovation for any organization. You will build a healthy workplace, increase revenue, and change the world with the lessons you’ll learn. Stop losing employees, grow your team, and build a contagious company culture that outlasts the competition.

There are books on general team building, there are books on workplace best practices, and there are books on leadership—but there is not a book that shows forward-thinking leaders how to integrate it into today’s new job-hopping culture. William Vanderbloemen uses his company’s proven experience in staffing and organizational consulting to provide a global perspective of effective, thriving cultures—and how to create them.
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William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, pastor, speaker, author, and CEO and founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, an executive search firm serving churches, ministries, and faith-based organizations. He is a regular contributor to several major publications including Forbes where he covers topics about having a strong faith and building a business, Fortune, and Outreach magazine. He has also been published through Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Inc.

Under his leadership, Vanderbloemen Search Group has won several culture awards and was named #24 on Forbes’ Best Executive Recruiting Firms in America. In 2015 and 2016, Vanderbloemen Search Group placed in the top 5 of Entrepreneur.com’s Top Company Culture – Small Business Category in the nation and top 6 of Houston’s Best Places to Work by Houston Business Journal.

Culture Wins is William’s third book following NEXT: Pastoral Succession That Works (2014) and SEARCH: The Pastoral Search Committee Handbook (2016). William holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary.

William, his wife Adrienne, their seven children, and poodle Moses live in Houston, Texas. In his free time, William enjoys running, working out, and caddying for his kids, who are now better golfers than he is.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Savio Republic (March 20, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1682615235
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1682615232
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.25 inches
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William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, pastor, speaker, author, and CEO and Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, an executive search firm serving churches, ministries, and faith-based organizations.

William has combined over 15 years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of Executive Search to provide churches with a unique offering: a deep understanding of local church work with the very best knowledge and practices of professional executive search.

Prior to his founding Vanderbloemen Search Group, William studied executive search under a mentor with over 25 years of executive search at the highest level. His learning taught him the very best corporate practices, including the search strategies used by the internationally known firm Russell Reynolds.

William also has experience as a Manager in Human Resources in a Fortune 200 company, where he focused on integration of corporate culture and succession planning.

All of these experiences have come together with his pastoral work to form a unique gift for helping churches and ministries build great teams by finding their key staff.

Prior to executive search, William led growth and innovation in churches in North Carolina, Alabama, and Houston. During his time in Alabama, William had the chance to help rebuild and relocate an ailing congregation and lead them to new levels of growth. At 31, he was elected Senior Pastor for the First Presbyterian Church of Houston, a church of about 5000 adults and 1500 children strong. It is Houston’s oldest congregation.

William is regularly invited to speak across the country in both church services and as a resource to churches and conferences on leadership.

He is a regular contributor to several major publications including Forbes where he covers topics about having a strong faith and building a business, Fortune, and Outreach Magazine. He has also been published through Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Inc.

His book "Next: Pastoral Succession That Works" on effective pastoral leadership and succession was released through Baker Books in September 2014. His most recent book, "Search: The Pastoral Search Committee Handbook," the practical guide to the pastor search process, was released through B&H Publishing in June 2016.

William holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary.

Besides helping connect churches with key staff, William enjoys spending time with family and connecting with people.

William is an avid social networker. Whether connecting with friends, candidates for searches he is doing, or church members, he loves to network, and he would love to interact with you through Facebook and/or Twitter at @wvanderbloemen.

William, his wife Adrienne, their seven children, and poodle Moses live in Houston. In his free time, William enjoys running, working out, and caddying for his kids, who are now better golfers than he is.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'd give it 6 stars if I could!
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<strong>I'd give it 6 stars if I could!</strong>

I loved this book! A very insightful read into developing & maintaining culture in any organization, but especially in the church. Make sure to get their daily ministry emails...only ministry email that I read every time.
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Chad Stutzman
5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding Culture
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2018
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Loved this book about culture and why it’s so important. Leaders that want to take their organization to the next level or that are stuck or struggling should read this book. Practical and easy to understand with real examples of how to lead and develop culture.
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Shannon Miles
5.0 out of 5 stars Leaders: Read this book! Your employees will thank you!
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2018
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Most employees long to be part of something meaningful. Sure, they want a great paycheck and benefits ... but they also want a great place to work for several different reasons. And THAT is culture. Culture is way more than an office ... it's so much more. In his book, "Culture Wins" ... William tackles a subject that mystifies plenty of leaders from non-profit to for-profit sharing his vast knowledge and experience helping organizations build great cultures ... and drawing on his own award-winning company culture.

Looking for a great guide to develop your organization's culture? Look no further. This is your book. Thank me later.
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Gary Chupik
3.0 out of 5 stars Error: Culture Does NOT Eat Strategy for Breakfast
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019
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Good book, but this statement is simply not true. Just like, "Everything rises and falls on leadership." It's a great soundbyte that sounds true, but think more deeply about it and you'll find it's not a zero-sum game. Culture doesn't eat strategy for breakfast. It's not an either/or. They must work together. Sorry...if you have a great culture and a poor strategy, you won't go very far. Culture is meant to....REINFORCE THE STRATEGY THAT LEADS TO A WINNING OUTCOME. So, everybody calm down. Culture and strategy are meant to work together to accomplish the mission of the organization.

Otherwise, a very good book that provides a lot of great nuggets of information.
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Philip Taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for growing teams
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2018
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I first heard William Vanderbloemen talk about staff culture during the 2018 XPastor Seminar in Dallas where we were both doing breakout sessions. (His was way more interesting than mine). I knew in my gut that staff culture needed to become a bigger focus for me at our church because I could already see the cracks emerging as our team sought to keep up with a rapid growth curve following the opening of our new building. By the time that “Culture Wins: The Roadmap to An Irresistible Workplace” was published a few months later, we had experienced 30% growth in our weekend gatherings and I needed what this book had to offer.

The premise of the book is obvious enough. Vanderbloemen makes the argument that the culture of your team will always win out over everything else. It’s stronger than your strategy, your product, even the abilities of your staff. So the goal is to clearly define your team culture and then recruit, train and build around that culture.

The Vanderbloemen search group has won all kinds of awards for having a great work culture and this book is in a sense, a chance for the company to say “Here is what we do from a team culture standpoint”. But in writing the book, Vanderbloemen took it a step further and interviewed a ton of other leaders of companies and organizations known for having a great team culture. So what you have is a mix of what they do, and what they’ve seen other companies do. Vanderbloemen makes it clear that in many aspects of team culture, it’s not a matter of right or wrong, but rather as he says “what is your kind of crazy”.

There is a great section on questions to ask yourself to assess the health of your team culture and it’s packed full of great ideas along the way. Vanderbloemen then gets into what I think is the most helpful part of the whole book as he unpacks the set of staff cultural values that his company created and honed over several months and how his company instilsl those values with new staff while keeping them in front of their existing staff. I loved the concept of using inbound marketing software to create a drip campaign targeted at your new staff! Totally stealing that idea for our team as we seek to improve our on boarding process and take it further than HR paperwork and issuing a computer.

Part three of the book gets into the life cycle of a team member from the first interview all the way to sending them onto their next job. For Vanderbloemen, that whole process is built around their staff cultural values. Even a persons review and pay is tied to how well they are living up to the companies stated culture.

I’m a process guy, so I would have liked to see more of the actual steps they took to establish their cultural values. And I would have liked a discussion about current vs. aspirational values as well as a more thorough “next steps” type of bibliography. But all in all, this book was an incredible catalyst for my own thinking and research for our church. It’s rare to read a book and find that so much of it is immediately applicable to your situation but that’s how I felt as I read Culture Wins. I underlined way more than normal and I filled the margins with notes to myself for later and other thoughts to apply to our particular situation. As I devoured the pages of this book, my brain was on fire with ideas. I genuinely learned a great deal and it hit me at the exact perfect time for our team and the intentional staff culture that we are trying to create.
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Reeder Family
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I’ve read on team culture
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2020
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Great book with plenty of helpful insights on leading teams an the importance of culture. A must read for CEO’s.
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Holly
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical guide to discovering your culture
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018
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Great guide on how to actually jumpstart the process of discovering your culture. I appreciate how practical the book is as well as the case studies in it. It’s a great and easy read.
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Greg Schuette
5.0 out of 5 stars Great work on value of culture
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019
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Really great book on why culture is important. Helpful tool to get a jump start.
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