Week 36, 2022—Issue #220
Culture is shared behavior, made manifest.
Each week: three ideas to help you create better organizations. This week: three ideas on culture.
Here we go:
“Culture [is] a consequence of actions rather than beliefs” writes investor Ben Horowitz. Culture is behavior.
Author Seth Godin defines culture as “people like us do things like this.” Culture is shared.
Culture cannot be directly manipulated. Explains author Niels Pflaeging: “Culture is read only.”
Culture is shared behavior, made manifest. It’s what happens when no one is watching. And it can only be altered through environmental change.
That’s all for this week.
Until next time: Make it matter.
How can we build better organizations? That’s the question I’ve been trying to answer for the past 10 years. Each week, I share some of what I’ve learned in a weekly newsletter called WorkMatters. Subscription is free. Back-issues are published to Medium after three months.
