7 Strengthening the launch pad

Culture Abscess

Symptoms: Odour nuisances and blaming

Culture abscess is not actually a management team disease, but the management team is often the source of the disease and its most powerful transmitter. In a management team that is polluted by culture abscess, you hear often the argument: the management team would create success, but we have this kind of culture and that kind of people. Many of the organization researchers have the opinion that everything drains downwards in an organization. Therefore, the management affects the culture more than employees. At worst, it is not even appropriate to talk about draining the culture abscess, which means the organization is blessed with "long live the sacred cows ...

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