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We're thinking about organizational culture all wrong
- andrew-lucker 10y agoI like the flora and fauna picture at the top. To summarize the article: culture is like an ecosystem, not a hammer.
- dilemma 10y agoCulture is descriptive, not prescriptive. Companies with the "no asshole rule" have it backwards and are likely full of assholes, starting at the top.
- heynowletsgo 10y agoCulture can be, but should not be thought of as shared values. The more accurate way to think of it is shared delusions. Their is nothing in "values" that is actually truth, just emotional feelings about it. Shared emotions can be replaced arbitrarily and you have a different culture but reality does not change. That's a delusion, and to use culture correctly in an organization you must recognize that what you are trying to manipulate is just a delusion. Deal with it as delusions and then effective techniques can be learned and implemented.
- Chris2048 10y agoWe live in an age were our understanding of 'culture' is as mature as medieval understanding of biology. Until social science matures, we will be stuck arguing about the balance of the humours.