Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
-Steve Jobs
Category Archives: Culture
Culturally…
Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from ‘Why can’t you see it like I do?’ to ‘Help me see what I might be missing’
– David Livermore
The combination…
The combination of cultures that resist change and managers who have not been taught how to create change is lethal.
– John Kotter
Change…
Change has to be fundamental to a company’s culture, or there is no way it can survive.
– Tobias Lutke
Change…
Change has to be fundamental to a company’s culture, or there is no way it can survive.
– Tobias Lutke
Values…
Values determine culture,
Culture determines behaviour,
Behaviour determines outcomes.
– Rohan Dredge
Everyone…
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t
– Bill Nye
If you’re…
If you’re doing something outside of dominant culture, there’s not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
– Ava Duvernay
Overcoming…
Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organisational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic National Bank of New York. He noticed a piece of paper that a co-worker had stapled to his cubicle wall. It read:
‘The six phases of a project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Rewards for the uninvolved’
Dattner writes: ‘I have yet to come across a more accurate description of how most dramas play out in our working lives.’
― Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – But Some Do
We…
We have a culture where we are incredibly self critical, we don’t get comfortable with our success.
– Mark Parker
