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How to shift a culture
If you want to shift a culture the most effective way to do it is to change who you hire.
It’s far easier to hire for traits you need than to try to transform a person who doesn’t have them into someone that does. The more people in an organization that successfully demonstrate a trait, the easier it is for others to emulate and adopt it.
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It takes great confidence
If you as the manager continually demonstrate that you are comfortable being challenged, or yielding your idea to a superior one suggested by a colleague or subordinate, everyone who works for you will emulate that behavior.
If you dismiss challenges or yell at peopl...
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Better at challenging assumptions
Some people ask more questions, have more doubts, and are willing to act on them. They are harder to manage since they naturally challenge authority, but if you want assumptions challenged that includes the assumption of hierarchy.
If healthy debate is encouraged the results will b...
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Separate people from their ideas
Healthy debate is easy if no one is taking the results personally.
Most heated debates involve people who have trouble separating their opinions from their identity. If I draw what turns out to be a bad idea on a whiteboard, in a healthy culture it’s reinforced that the idea is l...
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Challenging assumptions
- Postmortem / Debrief: after every project, a long conversation should take place where people review what happened, what assumptions were made, what went well and what could have gone better.
- Experimental attitude: “Let’s try working this way for a week a...
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It takes great confidence
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If you dismiss challenges or yell at peopl...
A shift to luxury essentialism
There is a shift from ownership to only using things that have personal value. You will have nice, well-made objects around you to enhance the things which are important to you, such as a beautiful set of crockery for someone who loves cooking for friends.
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Develop state awareness
People who fail to notice when they are becoming annoyed, judgmental, or defensive in the moment are not choosing how to behave. We all need an inner "lookout."
It is critical during a period of organizational change that the senior executives collectively adopt the lookout role for the org...
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