the.com/culture change
you don't announce it in a memo, you notice it when nobody's watching and behaving badly anyway.
means a deliberate, sustained shift in an organization's shared values, norms, and unwritten rules about how things actually get done.
from corporate borrow from anthropology, where culture meant the whole inherited system of a society; consultants shrunk it to fit org charts sometime in the 1980s, right around when everyone got obsessed with japanese management theory.
failure ratemost initiatives quietly die within two years
real driverwhat gets rewarded, not what gets said
fastest leverwho gets promoted or fired
slowest leverposters, values statements, town halls