Culture - Today's guest is Andre Chow a Surgeon, Researcher, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Touch Surgery. Andre Talks about the difficulties involved with growing a startup and the importance of culture in the work place and what it really means.

Show Notes:

1.06 Touch Surgery.

1.32 How was Andre influenced from being an academic to business man?

2.12 How to treat people to get the best out of them.

2.27 How Andre learnt his business leadership style.

3.23 The most tricky elements of staffing in Andre’s experience.

3.54 Difficulties trying to attract the sort of people you want to employ.

4.23 Don’t forget your employee will have a first impression of your workplace.

5.23 Giving people room to grow and learn while at work; they’re not robots!

7.08 When launching should you come with a collective vision for a start up?

8.17 Culture is something you can’t craft but equally can’t ignore.

8.50 Selecting for characteristics of employees you want, so they fit the culture.

10.00 Unique challenges with working with millennial

11.23 How to motivate such a diverse staff with a wide range of talent.

13.30 Is it possible to inspire your staff when your product isn’t as innovative as Touch Surgery.

14.41 Top 3 tips for staffing and leadership.

14.53 Try to over communicate as the company grows.

16.03 Actively try to promote diversity in your teams.

16.49 Put yourself into the shoes of your employees.