Ways of Seeing
To Change Company Culture, Focus on Systems—Not Communication
Benjamin Laker, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Yasin Rofcanin, Tomasz Gorny, Marcello Marianihbr.org"Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Ed Schein: “Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of culture as a concept is that it points us to phenomena that are below the surface, that are powerful in their impact but invisible and to a considerable degree unconscious. In that sense, culture is to a group what personality or character is to an
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The gist: We live in a world of constant noise. The power of anthropology is that it can help us listen to social silence, and, above all, see what is hidden in plain sight. To listen this way, it helps to embrace tools from ethnography about being an insider-outsider and borrow ideas such as habitus, reciprocity, sense-making, and lateral vision.
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