The more failed projects and the more underperforming teams I see the more I am convinced that we focus on the wrong things. Neither technical excellence or even a great team is enough to build sustainable organization that delivers and keep its clients happy. The bit we keep forgetting about is organizational culture. The soul of every organization that heavily affects everything that is happening around. It’s not a surprise. For something as intangible there is no recipe, thus evolving organizational culture is never a sure shot. Bear with me when we explore how to tame this fuzzy beast. You may learn why some of your efforts were failing or how to be a better leader or that it’s time to move on and find a new job. Most of all you will understand one more layer of a complex environment we call a workplace

1. Pawel Brodzinski
@pawelbrodzinski
Culture
The Forgotten Bit

2. 70% of all major change efforts
in organizations fail
John Kotter

3. Practices, practices, practices

4. Beyond practices

5. organizational culture
the behavior of humans who are part of an
organization and the meanings that the people react
to their actions
includes the organization values, visions, norms,
working language, systems, symbols, beliefs, and
habits
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture

6. CHANGE FAILURE

7. CULTURE PRACTICESRELATED TO
CHANGE FAILURE

8. CULTURE PRACTICES
ROOT CAUSES
SOLUTIONS
RELATED TO
CHANGE FAILURE

9. CULTURE PRACTICES
ROOT CAUSES
SOLUTIONS
RELATED TO
CHANGE FAILURE

10. Culture hacking

11. DO
PLAN
CHECK
ACT

12. Mindful use of practice
leads to learning
Mindless use of practice
leads to cargo cult

14. organizational culture
the behavior of humans who are part of an
organization and the meanings that the people react
to their actions
includes the organization values, visions, norms,
working language, systems, symbols, beliefs, and
habits
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture

15. Culture change
can’t be mandated

17. organizational culture
the behavior of humans who are part of an
organization and the meanings that the people react
to their actions
includes the organization values, visions, norms,
working language, systems, symbols, beliefs, and
habits
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture

18. Mission Statements

21. organizational culture
the behavior of humans who are part of an
organization and the meanings that the people react
to their actions
includes the organization values, visions, norms,
working language, systems, symbols, beliefs, and
habits
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture

22. People

23. Hiring for cultural fit

24. groupthink
psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group
of people, in which the desire for harmony or
conformity in the group results in an irrational or
dysfunctional decision-making outcome
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

26. Collective intelligence was much
more predictive in terms of
succeeding in complex tasks than
average individual intelligence or
maximal individual intelligence
Anita Woolley

27. The more women in a team
the better collective
intelligence*
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in
Human Groups

28. lead·er·ship noun ˈliːdəʃɪp
(1) : The action of leading a group of people or an
organization, or the ability to do this
(2) : The state or position of being a leader
Source: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/leadership

30. What would happen
if we tore down
existing
hierarchies?

31. If constraints are reasonable
so would be organization

32. #NoManagement

33. Empowerment

35. Culture
pockets

36. Organizational culture is
blood of every organization

37. Thank you
Pawel Brodzinski
brodzinski.com
lunarlogic.io
@pawelbrodzinski