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Chapter 6 Environmental Antipatterns

Cultural or environmental antipatterns are those that are not attributable to a single person, incident, or practice. Instead, these are antipatterns due to a series of poorly thought-out strategies or environmental changes that create a toxic atmosphere, a negative organizational culture.

Environmental antipatterns in our catalog include

Ant Colony
Atlas Shrug
Autonomous Collective
Boiling Frog Syndrome ...

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