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Your culture is what you actually reward and punish, not the abstract ideals that you talk about.
by ThrustVectoring 9y ago
Your culture is what you actually reward and punish, not the abstract ideals that you talk about.
- robotresearcher 9y agoThere's a great aphorism with similar meaning: People do what you inspect, not what you expect. edit: Wikiquote attributes to Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM) but earlier instances can be found (see comments below). Lovely bit of language.
- dctoedt 9y agoThat's an old nuclear-Navy saying from at least as early as the 1970s: You get what you INspect, not what you EXpect.
- robotresearcher 9y agoEarliest citation I could find is a management book from 1962: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/you_can_expect_what_you_inspect_management_adage http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/you_...