Culture matters

cultures—that one of the most powerful and accessible ways you can make change is to change your team culture. If you are a manager, you particularly have surefire ways to access below the surface level interactions so you can mold your culture on a micro level. Leading a team means you have the opportunity to go below the culture surface every day

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Manipulation and inspiration both tickle the limbic brain. Aspirational messages, fear or peer pressure all push us to decide one way or another by appealing to our irrational desires or playing on our fears. But it’s when that emotional feeling goes deeper than insecurity or uncertainty or dreams that the emotional reaction aligns with how we view

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Cultures use incentive systems too. Instead of physical shocks or jail time as penalties, cultures enforce their values with social and psychological punishments like criticism, ridicule, shame, and ostracism. Instead of Snausages or money, they use rewards like praise, acceptance, approval, respect, and admiration.

- compensation is about incentivizing people and what we want the DAO to actually accomplish and then find the straightest line between the money and the motivation.

Giving clear directions, feedback as you iterate, and appropriate context to make a decision all help humans, and they also help AI. Previously, this was something you could only do with text, but now you can do it with images as well.

When shaping an organization in practice, your work decomposes into manipulating three levers: structure, incentives, and culture. Organization designers know they must consider the interplay between all three elements. For example, companies organized into business units tend to have different cultures at the unit level, but strong company culture... See more