Chris Walker discusses the need for culture change in businesses to align with strategic changes. He states that culture is often allowed to remain unchanged while strategy and structure adapt, but for true growth, all three - strategy, structure, and culture - must change simultaneously. Walker also emphasizes that culture change requires changing people's personalities or replacing people whose personalities do not fit the new strategy.

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Chris Walker

2. Strategy must lead change
Structure must change simultaneously
But Culture is often allowed to bask in the sun
a sacred cow.
It follows that good growth requires
Strategy, Structure and Culture
to Change Simultaneously
Therefore, culture change is crisis management

3. When you change a strategy, you need people who can
change personality
or you must
Find new people with the new personality
to FIT the new strategy.
Chris Walker

4. Nature Business Growth Metaphor – Chris Walker
Innate (universal)
The place we were born, the
traditions, mostly unconscious
and unspoken. Our early child
environment.
Human Nature
Learned (specific to groups)
The habits, values, beliefs we
pick up as a child influenced by
family, teachers and
environment.
Culture
Innate – Learned (individual)
The way we create a sense of
self, our quest for satisfaction,
control, fulfillment, love,
achievement and validation.
Personality
Unlearning - Adapting
What we do, the ways we act
and respond to the world around
us, Our behavior. Our leadership
and FIT in social systems.
Self- Development

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Human Nature
Result
Individuals consider this the foundation of
their “self” and will rarely volunteer to
change this aspect of themselves. This
limits individual ability to adapt happily to
culture change. This zone can be changed
easily when crisis is significant and options
are few.
Human Nature
The formulation of our family and social values,
rules, morals, ethics, beliefs, ideals, expectations
and environmental factors that define us. Most of
us build our life and career considering these
elements as unchangeable radio active facts,
instead of adopted beliefs.

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Culture
Result
There can be considerable disharmony
between our true nature, and our culture,
(business, work, home, community) which
will cause personal and cultural discontent
at an irreconcilable level. Many leaders in
this situation unnecessarily try to influence
others to change but ultimately only for
their own comfort. Culture must be the
target and human change the variable.
Culture
We externalise our belonging and sense of
self through association with subgroups,
cultures and communities. Behaviors are
predicable and comfortable. We belong
and therefore we feel secure.

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Personality
Results
The ego is born, emotions, sensory
gratification, personal agenda, behavior
and appetites, needs wants and all desire.
Often the focus of human development but,
in isolation to culture and human nature, a
pure egocentric waste of time and money.
Personality
People from other countries think, feel and act differently
than we are used to here. Even compatriots from a
different region or social class often behave differently
than we do. In an open society, everyone is more often in
contact with such dissenters than they used to be. For
those others, we are the dissenters. What separates us
is the "culture" we grew up in, the infused and therefore
often unconscious values that make us "normal" find
what others find bad, and dirty what is clean for others.
Everyone who thinks differently shows what these
differences mean for our personality, our health, our
family life, our education, our work, our government and
the things we believe in.

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Personal
Development
Personal Development
Human nature, culture and personality must all
work together to create a realistic opportunity for
an individual to step up to new ways of being.
This may be a minefield of wounds and scar
tissue and therefore must be approached with
respect.
Results
Personal development is a necessity for
any person who chooses to adapt to
change, stay one step ahead. REAL
personal development is holistic and
personal (individualised not mass
market)…

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Human
Nature
Culture
Personality
Personal
Development Personal Development/ Culture Change
Personality.
Culture
Human Nature

10. Culture Change – Crisis Management Chris Walker
Inspire
The
Individual
Change the
Environment
New
Balanced
Vision
Culture
Change
Personal
Development
Link
Individual
To
Vision

11. Uniquely Australian, highly intuitive and inspired, Chris Walker is on the forefront of radical personal development and
change that inspires people to find purpose and to live in harmony with the Laws of Nature. His methods are dynamic, and
direct. His work is gifted, heart-opening and inspirational.
The process Chris embraces can be confrontational, but if you are prepared to “step out” the personal power that this
knowledge gives you is without doubt life changing and truly inspiring.
Chris’s purpose is to open hearts and to stop the hurt. His work comes from his heart and is a truly magnificent gift for
anyone ready to receive it. Chris shows people how to bring spirit into their life and keep it there. His sensitivity and
empathy to others is his gift.
The most powerful thing that we can do with our lives is to be on purpose, and live with the knowledge of spirit. Chris helps
you discover this, that which is already yours, and through his work, you will find the courage and love to honour your-self
and follow your heart.
Chris brings his work to individuals and businesses. He believes for business success, you first need to create personal
success, and this happens when your business and the people within it are on purpose.
Chris Walker is an author, a speaker and a truly inspirational individual who has been fortunate enough in this life to find and
live his truth.