Every organisation runs on a code of implicit common sense that obeys its culture.
A set of things nobody needs to say, because everybody already knows them. An unwritten code, deciding matters that may or may not line up with the mission.
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When the logical elements of management draw a blank, it's time to look inwards.
Culture isn't designed. It's a tribal imprint of who the leadership is, to the people working under them.
A company can put its values on the wall and write them into the annual report. But the real values are the ones that keep that imprint alive, in the behaviour and attitudes of the staff.
You can't hand someone their culture from outside and expect it to hold.
What's imposed has to be maintained. What's true was already there, and it runs on its own. The task isn't to invent a new culture, it's to show you the one you've got, so you can see what you are really working with.
You can design a culture, install one, even try to impose it. Wherever it deviates from the form it naturally wants to take, you pay for the difference.
Friction. Incoherence. Creative, motivational and financial, waste. Realign the motivation with the mission, and the water runs the course the engineer wanted, with no locks, no lifts, no pumping.
The answer is usually already in the room.
Not hidden. Just not marked for attention, because nothing in the current model flags it as the thing to look at. When we examine the gap, what was always there becomes obvious.
It doesn't always work. But mostly it does.
You shouldn't hire someone who can't help you.
I shouldn't work with someone I can't help.
If the answer is already there, this might be the conversation where you get a good look at it.
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