Culture eats strategy for breakfast, technology for lunch, and products for dinner, and soon thereafter everything else too.Why? Because company culture, a concept pioneered by Edgar Schein, is the operationalizing of an organization’s values. Culture guides employee decisions about both technical business decisions and how they interact with others. Good culture creates an internal coherence in actions taken by a very diverse group of employees.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
La culture d'entreprise est ce qui rend les actions de tous cohérentes sans surcharger tout le monde avec des procédures paralysantes.
C'est donc un outil sur-puissant, qu'il travaille à la perte de l'entreprise ou à son agileté, sa capacité d'innovation et d'adaptation, bref, sa performance.
Et c'est aussi un des éléments les plus complexes à transformer. Complexe, mais pas impossible.
Culture matters and it matters immensely!
This seems to be a theme for my day... this is the third place I"ve encountered the idea, and it's not even 9am yet. When we seek to create change in the world, all too often we ignore the most powerful thing working against us - the culture in which we're working. So how can you work with that? Make your change "fit" the culture? Find ways to change the culture itself?