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February 20th, 2026

Episode 473 The 8 Silent Culture Killers Costing You Talent, Trust, and Performance

  1. Episode 473 The 8 Silent Culture Killers Costing You Talent, Trust, and Performance Mike Harbour 20:42

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour discusses why culture is a performance strategy and highlights a gap between employees who value strong culture and leaders who actively protect it. 

Drawing from research and ideas referenced in his book, ‘Quit Losing Talent,’ Mike walks through 8 “silent” culture killers that often become normalized. For each culture killer, he outlines how it shows up in organizations, the cost to trust, engagement, decision speed, and retention, and the leadership shifts needed. 

Mike closes by challenging leaders to identify which of these issues they’ve normalized and invites listeners to share the episode and discuss it with their executive teams.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a 5-star review on your Streaming platform. Mike encourages you to reach out to him through [email protected] to share your thoughts on this episode & to share some topics you would like him to cover in the future.

Mike Harbour President of Harbour Resouces

“Delivering Excellence in Leadership and Personal Development”

Mike is a veteran serving as both an enlisted soldier and medical service corps officer in the U.S. Army. Mike has almost 30 years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry as a leader in hospital operations, leadership training and development, sales, talent management, and executive search.

Mike launched Harbour Resources in 2006 and has coached, trained, and developed thousands of leaders.
Mike has published over 345 episodes on The Lead Up Podcast. He is an author of Power Principles, Quit Losing Talent Expanded Edition, and Co-Author of Breaking Average.

Mike’s focus and his company’s mission is to deliver excellence in leadership and personal development solutions to help you lead others, lead yourself, hire “A” players for your teams, and develop them to be high performers.

Mike is the proud father of 2 Kids and husband of 32 years to the beautiful Connie Harbour