Looking for your glasses while wearing them
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Looking for your glasses while wearing them
This is how I feel about culture. We’re so surrounded by it that it’s impossible to see. Many things we think are true are really just our local culture. We can’t see it until we get outside of it.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
culture is a critical alignment tool. It ensures organizations are operating from a shared perspective, using consistent language, and serving a variety of stakeholders who all operate within the same cultural context.
Noël Theodosiou • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
The way to extraordinary growth and changes often involves a fundamental ontological or ‘lens’ shift in how you see the world. Magicians are wearing not just better, but fundamentally differently shaped lenses to the rest of us.
autotranslucence.wordpress.com • Becoming a Magician
These shifts happen all the time. Often, they involve a change of perspective and scale—seeing our own lives in much wider contexts of history, geography and culture, part of a bigger ‘now’, and a bigger ‘here’. They involve giving up older illusions and attachments, such as to the symbols of the tribe or the rituals of religions.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
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