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Innovative, high-performing workplace cultures enable business success. This article uses interviews with executives, researchers and authors to identify obstacles, enablers and solutions for workplace culture. Key obstacles to healthy workplace culture include poor leadership, employees’ selfish ambitions, and years of ingrained culture. Enablers of winning culture include employees believing firm success to be related to their own success, as well as open dialogue between leaders and employees. Leaders should define and share a clear picture of what the desired workplace should look like. They should also establish trust and embrace management training, while aligning culture, goals and performance. As this article explains, CEOs should understand the existing workplace culture and evaluate the tolerance for change; create a clear, shared vision of what they want the new culture to look like; be honest about why they are changing the culture, and about their own leadership abilities; take care of their team and ensure that team members feel connected; and build a strong management system and framework.