Your culture has the natural potential to support unbridled growth and expansion - if you have a clear intention.
When people are true to themselves, the culture moulds itself around the authentic strengths and vision of the leaders.
The petty tyrannies that resist a sustainable future will never go away. But the weapons of mass construction are always available.
Cultural dynamics...
Culture is identical in dynamic to the ‘comfort zone’ of the individual. It acts like an invisible, semi-permeable membrane that defines and holds your organisation together. Responsibly directed, it can serve as a solid foundation for a sustainable future. Left to itself, it defaults to a tyrannical beast - frustrating all your best efforts.
The fallacy of change strategies...
The fallacy (and tragedy) of expensive, time-consuming ‘cultural change’ programmes is: while they are so often totally logical they can also be wholly unsustainable. ‘Change’ is rarely the issue. In the same way humanity didn’t ‘change’ when Moses gave us the Ten Commandments, an organisation won’t change if you supply a new set of perfectly crafted values, mission statements, competencies and ideal behaviours! People have their truth inside them. Why override this?
We’ve had major organisations here having invested mightily in ‘open kimono’, ‘honesty’, ‘coaching’, values-led’, ‘etc’ cultures. However, when challenged by our horses, they are dismayed to realise they have simply been taught to cover up their truth with a veneer of well-rehearsed platitudes!
The simple solution...
The solution is simple – but not easy! Any culture is either FEAR-DRIVEN or AUTHENTICALLY-LED. We coach/mentor/train individuals continuously to transform their own personal issues into authentic, clear intention based on an emerging inner truth. We coach/mentor/train leaders to exemplify and reward authentic behaviour – especially when it seems unreasonable, illogical and cannot be analysed or controlled.
