People like us (do things like this) Change a culture, change your world
People like us (do things like this) Change a culture, change your world
Seth Godin
Corporate Culture and Performance
Corporate Culture and Performance
John P. Kotter
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Corporate_Culture_and_Performance.html?id=pWudzigl0ucC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord
Take a Wrecking Ball to Your Company’s Iconic Practices
Most leaders today are trying to do the same things: help their organizations become more agile, more innovative, more digitally savvy, and more customer-centric.
Sooner or later, though, they come up against entrenched values and behaviors, and progress stalls. That’s particularly true with digital transformation. Experts concur that traditional mindsets and “ways of doing things around here” — the lay definition of culture — are the primary culprits hindering the fundamental transformation that emerging technologies are meant to enable.
Car culture meetup
Nine pm on a Sunday night and Tesco car park has more cars than it ever does when it’s open. Tonight is the 6th Shutter Gang meet up and hundreds of customised and modded cars of all makes, ages and value have converged to create the biggest car meet in the region.
The Shutter Gang website says “We are relatively new car community established in 2016 in Buckinghamshire. We started as a group of friends who loved two things: cars and photography – hence shutter in our name. We bring the biggest and most fun car events in the area, we spend hours planning every little thing so you can enjoy your night and this is what gives us satisfaction! Our ideas clearly work as there was over 500 of you at our last meet of 2016 and we had over 300 cars in there!”
It’s fantastic to see this kind of subculture thriving. It’s especially fascinating for me because I’m interested in how subcultures around a shared interest develop and what model is used to create a community. I hope the Shutter Gang meets continue and the community grows in the way the organisers want it to.
Phrases we use at work and what they mean
We have a few funny phrases that we use at work
‘At Alton Towers’ means off sick.
‘Watching Murder, she wrote’ means working from home.
‘We’re not going to pole vault out of here’ means there isn’t a simple solution to this problem.
It’s interesting how these little bits of organisational culture develop and get adopted.