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What culture is made of, how to see your own, and what actually moves it.
Fixing a toxic culture
A toxic work culture is not a bad week or a tough boss. The five attributes research links to the worst culture ratings, the signs to look for team by team, what it costs, and how to fix it.
Schein's three levels
Schein's three levels of culture, artifacts, espoused values and basic underlying assumptions, explained with workplace examples, plus the six ways leaders embed culture and how to use the model to diagnose your own.
Culture, clearly defined
Culture is not the values poster. A plain definition of organizational culture, what company, corporate and workplace culture mean, the types worth knowing, everyday examples and the evidence on why it matters.
Can culture change?
Culture changes when what people repeatedly see rewarded, tolerated and modelled changes. What moves culture, what only decorates it, and how to know it is moving.
Culture tools compared
A culture tool reads culture through a model, and the model decides what you see. OCAI, Denison, the Hofstede-based model and custom surveys compared, with when to use each.
Values people believe
Every company that refreshes its values throws a launch — and most quietly change nothing. The craft that makes a launch actually land is mostly subtraction. Here is what that looks like.
Measure culture, not guesses
Culture feels intangible until you decide to measure it well. A practical guide for HR and OD leaders on how to quantify organizational culture with evidence, not intuition, before you launch a change program.
