John-Miguel Mitchell

Husband, Dad, CA native, workplace culture consultant for startups/VCs, political history junkie and avid BYU football watcher.

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Could you accurately and succinctly describe your company culture right now?

More importantly, if you asked a sampling of employees, would you get consistent answers?

Leaders need to be be pro-active, not reactive to these questions.

#workplaceculture #LeadershipMatters

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@hthieblot Get purpose right early and you never have to pay full price for talent again. Get it wrong and you’ll be outbidding everyone forever.

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@alexisohanian Genuine question — at what point does 'chew glass' stop being resilience and start being a culture that burns people out by design?

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@akothari @scribeceo Owning context assumes you have any. Most workplaces are just leasing each other’s tribal knowledge, badly, in meetings.

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@BigBrainBizness @jess123555 Thanks for sharing. I’d add that culture design is the shock absorber. You can’t remove the whiplash — but you can decide how the team absorbs it.

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@PeacemakingSt @UchtdorfDF Love this man. Amazed that he could be so cool, calm and collected at such a young age in front of such a large audience.

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@HarryStebbings And the rebuild almost never happens because it requires one thing most founders can't do:
Admit the culture they're so proud of is exactly what broke the company. The values deck. The all-hands energy. The "we move fast" identity. You can't fix what you're still celebrating.

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@BStulberg Agree. And I'll add what nobody in VC-land wants to hear:

The founders burning out at 34, the 80-hr weeks worn like a badge — that's not excellence. That's fear dressed up as ambition.

Excellence doesn't scale by destroying the people building it.

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@religiongal Great piece Peggy, but I'd go a couple of steps further. Here's why they're moving left:

1. Trump killed the "family values" myth
2. Gospel principles = progressive policy
3. Global church = global worldview
4. They're actually reading (The B of M is an anti-inequality text)

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@Papa_Ostler That made my night. He’s been a hero of mine since I was a little boy.

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@jkimballcook @LowTimePrefrenz These are all good mentions, but don’t forget Sterling McMurrin, Lowell Bennion, Gene England and Adam S Miller (still alive).

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@jkimballcook Highly recommend “The Gift of Self” by Marion D Hanks to any member who strives to be a better leader in the Church.

Read it on my mission—game changer. Very underrated.

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Your startup isn’t losing to AI.
It’s losing to culture debt.
65% of failures are people problems — not product.

In 2026, VCs won’t just price your tech.
They’ll price your team.

https://t.co/Kq9GANJQic

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🎙️ Your investors didn't just fund your company. They modeled a culture. The question is — are you paying attention?
New episode out now. 🎧
https://t.co/eh3yr2xKCK

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@LDS_Dems Let me just add: ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these…’ That scripture didn’t come with an asterisk for immigration status. Our history should humble us — not give us spreadsheets to dehumanize families who are literally doing what many of our pioneers did.

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Bad Bunny performed entirely in Spanish for 123M viewers 🇵🇷—and it became one of the most-watched halftime shows ever.
65% of startups fail because they lose sight of purpose under growth pressure.
New episode on what founders can learn ⬇️
https://t.co/lFaHXsCt2A

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@TheTNHoller This clip by Obama needs to be on my tombstone 🪦 after I leave this earth. Couldn’t agree more with our former president. Look in the mirror America, does Trump push us to be better or worse Americans?

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Deel corporate espionage case: $17B valuation, DOJ probe, alleged trade secret theft.
One unethical hire = more risk than your security budget.
New: Startup governance playbook for preventing culture debt 🔥🎙️ https://t.co/nredA9SCBV

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@reidhoffman @sfstandard Agreed @reidhoffman, I actually wrote about this almost 6 months ago: https://t.co/7Qj1TqxEo1

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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 hires people through the “Enthusiastic” door... then quietly hopes they never notice the “Past Caring” entrance.

𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲 — it’s sustained by systems. 🚪⚙️