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CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.

Daniel Coyle • The Culture Code

Culture is the unspoken set of rules that people in a group follow when interacting with one another. You act differently when you’re in a bar than when you’re at a family dinner. That’s because the rules that run the interactions between the different nodes in the networks have changed. Culture is the name for those rules.

Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

Deconstructing cultural codes

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"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

Ben Thompson • The Curse of Culture

Culture is how you behave, how you’ve been told to behave: the transmission from your parents and your friends and how you carry that out. So a work of art cannot be said to be purely cultural or purely individual.

Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

“Cultivation,” “culture,” these words—our sense of what we can cultivate maybe has changed over time but this word that sort of originates with cultivating the land in order to grow crops has so many more broader applications. We cultivate certain values in our children that we want to manifest in the next generation. Culture is any information... See more

Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study.

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Ed Schein, now retired from the MIT School of Management, taught that a group’s culture can be studied in three ways: by looking at its “artifacts,” such as physical space and behaviors; by surveying the beliefs and values espoused by group members; or by digging deeper into the underlying assumptions behind those values.