Most culture change efforts are designed to fail. What if the approach guarantees it? Leaders announce a culture shift, a program gets designed, workshops roll out, and posters go up. The posters have a longer half life than the commitment. Twelve months later the organisation is roughly where...

Every organisation has a strategy for growth. Most also have a strategy for talent, for technology, for market positioning. Very few have a strategy for the thing that determines whether any of those others will actually work. Culture is the operating environment in which your strategy either ga...

Culture is always up to something. You may not have asked it to be, but it is. It shapes what people prioritise. It influences how decisions get made. It affects who speaks, who waits, and what happens next. Organisational culture is not a backdrop. It is a system. It moves through our language,...