Jiri’s Notepad

Manager Tools:

Much has been written corporate cultures and how to change them. And yet, there are always plenty of examples of organizations which attempt to model themselves on these concepts and whose cultures bear no resemblance to what the model proposes.

This is because the culture of an organization is almost exclusively a function of the behaviors of the employees and stakeholders in that organization. These models do create one of many potential pre-requisites for a successful culture, but then they fail. Why? Because they do not change a significant enough percentage of the behaviors in the organization.

This makes the goal of the change agent obvious. THE ONLY WAY to change an organization’s culture is by changing the behaviors of the employees in the organization.