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Culture

Culture is downstream of structure. Posts on why the "fix the culture" reflex usually fails, and what to try instead.

51 posts
Org Design Culture

Survey on Hidden Patterns

Please participate in my survey on patterns and performance in organizations, at survey.hd-pt.com. It takes 5 minutes!

Org Design Culture Values

Design Feeling

Naoto Fukasawa designs objects that disappear into use. Most org design disappears into frameworks. What if we took feeling as seriously as thinking?

Artificial Intelligence Leadership Culture

Five OD Things N° 12

Selling personal super-intelligence; trust & safety heading for the exits; raw compute vs. the junk drawer; Wall Street loves shrinking payrolls; the first targets are email jobs

Org Design Culture Values

Super Performance

TL;DR: We lack a shared, rigorous way to assess an entire organization – most tools either miss key drivers or apply only to specific domains. By meta-analyzing 102 criteria from 14 seminal sources, from Rams’ Design Principles to the Agile Manifesto to Jane Jacobs' Generators of Diversity, this post

Org Design Culture

Hidden Patterns is Open for Pre-Order

Hey there! I wrote a book. It's about fixing the about fixing the invisible stuff that makes work suck. I'd be honored if you gave it a read.

Org Design Culture Management

Five Org Design Things N° 10

Pattern languages and org analysis; RTO is bad, even if offices are good; old maps made 3D; diverging values worldwide; exit interviews

Culture Leadership

Five Creativity Things

Challenges facing creativity; owning ideas from beginning to end; opinionated palettes; are we doing zines again?; randomness that didn’t fit in the first four categories

Culture Transformation Structure

Five Org Design Things N° 9

Organizational health essential for firm performance; Avinsa; the heat death of Google; team performance research; platform teams @ PepsiCo