“Culture” is the “miasma“ of management theories.
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“Culture change” = “let’s install a giant dome over the city and install huge HEPA filters throughout the city” without realizing there’s wildfires burning nearby.
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Would love if you could expand on this - poorly defined cultures, or all business ‘cultures’? How are we defining culture?
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Culture is like air. It’s just there and mostly fine doing its job. It’s not good or bad. Miasma theory is the idea that “bad air” is causing some disease. It’s rarely the air, and even when it is (eg pollution from fire as in California right now), it’s the medium not source.
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Disagree - I think it's easy to understand if a culture is broken and understand how to change it. It's actually just really hard to actually change it.
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That last clause means you don’t understand how to change it, and your idea of how it’s broken is a just-so theory that doesn’t work. What looks like “broken culture” is nearly always referred pain from something else invisible. “Culture” can’t actually break. It’s not a machine.
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