Defining, Changing and Leveraging Your Corporate Culture

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Defining, Changing and Leveraging Your Corporate
Culture

• Top 5 Culture Myths
• Culture is impossible to identify
• Culture is touchy feely crap and not that
  important
• Were all individuals and dont have a (strong)
  culture here
• Culture does not affect the company or the
  strategic objectives
• We cant change our culture

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Culture is impossible to identify Culture is
touchy feely fluff and not that important Were
all individuals and dont have a (strong) culture
here Culture does not affect the company or the
strategic objectives We cant change our
culture
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Organizational Culture Diagnosis
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Organizational Culture Diagnosis
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Culture is impossible to identify Culture is
touchy feely fluff and not that important Were
all individuals and dont have a (strong) culture
here Culture does not affect the company or the
strategic objectives We cant change our
culture
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Culture is impossible to identify Culture is
touchy feely fluff and not that important Were
all individuals and dont have a (strong) culture
here Culture does not affect the company or the
strategic objectives We cant change our
culture
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Were all individuals here...

• A new corporate language has been invented to
  support peoples need to believe that their work
  is actually an endless quest for originality.
  Outside the box, for instance. You cannot
  spend two hours inside any big American company
  without some poor sucker telling you how he
  believes in thinking outside of the box. The
  one thing that is certain is that anyone who uses
  the phrase outside the box is as deeply inside
  the box as a person can be.
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  Michael Lewis author of Liars Poker

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Culture is impossible to identify Culture is
touchy feely fluff and not that important Were
all individuals and dont have a (strong) culture
here Culture does not affect the company or the
strategic objectives We cant change our
culture
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Moderate preferences produce entrenched norms

• The grain in the balance shifts our behavior in
  the desired direction EVERY TIME. Even though I
  only have a slight preference for my typical
  route home, it is only slightly faster, I will
  ALWAYS choose it over time.

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Culture is impossible to identify Culture is
touchy feely fluff and not that important Were
all individuals and dont have a (strong) culture
here Culture does not affect the company or the
strategic objectives We cant change our
culture
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Transformational Process
Output
Strategy
Informal Organization
Formal Organizational Arrangements
Organizational Group Individual
Technology
Individual
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