Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Innerculturechange

9:19 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

Culture is a collective mindset, attitude, and behavior.

We have to shift gears to see the culture of an organization as a collective whole living breathing, a human system composed of uniquely diverse people who have much to offer to grow and develop the culture as a strong organizational brand.

An organization's culture reflects the values and pattern of behavior of its executive management and can be labeled as the organization's personality. It is the one thing that other companies can't copy quickly. It gives you competitive advantage, it reflects corporate value, lifts strategy; harnesses innovation, and encourages leading across boundaries, etc.

Culture Change

Innateculturedotconnection Every organization exhibits a culture. The departments within the organization have a culture. Anytime people work together for an extended period of time, a culture is formed. What is the culture – culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors. Culture is what you observe when the managers are not around. Culture is a set of corporate values and an invisible piece of business brand. A company's culture, which is heavily ingrained and implicit and not directly perceptible, is also very hard to change and changes slowly if at all.

Innovateculturewiththreepersonas Culture is how people think or behave collectively in the organization or society. In a fast-growing company people tend to have similar ideal values to achieve high performance, their attitude manifests in their corporate culture. However, when the business moves to the stage of stability, this corporate culture tends to stay the same over time, there are the pitfalls of culture inertia that get the business stagnated.

Unpuzzlecultureviadotconnection An organization's culture reflects the values and pattern of behavior of its executive management and can be labeled as the organization's personality. It is the one thing that other companies can't copy quickly. It gives you competitive advantage, it reflects corporate value, lifts strategy; harnesses innovation, and encourages leading across boundaries, etc. Here are a couple of culture dots connections to build differentiated business advantages.

Innercultureofchange The digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves. Today’s digital business environment is dynamic, complex, and uncertain. There are always different complexities at a different time or dimension. Communication, exemplification, and amplification of best practices are all crucial steps in building a culture of change.

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