Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.