October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
7 pages
14m
English
Leaders can shift their organization’s culture to better translate strategy into behavior and reinforce change priorities.
Culture is often described as “how we do things around here” — a passive reflection of legacy norms and behaviors. It’s more helpful to think of culture as the nervous system of an organization. In biology, the central nervous system is the pathway by which thoughts in our brains are translated into actions by our muscles, and how our experience of acting in the world updates our brain’s understanding of the world. In organizations, this means thinking of culture as the transmission mechanism by which a company ...
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