Your organizational culture comes from years of interactions between the participants of the organization, where most of them are already gone and what lives is their myth and the interpretation of that mythology that current employees make of it.
Every organization has a foundational myth. The myth that tells the story of how the “founding fathers” devised and created something that endured through the years.
Sometimes their mission still holds true, sometimes its changed to something they wouldn’t even recognize. Big socio-economic changes, mergers and labor disputes all have the potential to take an organization’s culture to hell.
Changing organizational culture is one of the most daunting tasks you’ll ever endure. It takes time, lots of follow up work and cooperation across the board (which is not usually easy to obtain).
When you attempt to change culture, you are attempting to change a paradigm.
The three cultures
Let me debunk your first preconception. Your company doesn’t have an organizational culture: it has 3.



























