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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
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
CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.
Daniel Coyle • The Culture Code
Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
The word culture itself comes from the root cultivate — as in to grow with intention
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
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.