{"id":92732,"date":"2024-08-25T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92732"},"modified":"2024-08-25T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:54:07","slug":"heres-why-its-so-hard-to-change-a-culture-satell-pay-attention-higher-ed-dsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/08\/25\/heres-why-its-so-hard-to-change-a-culture-satell-pay-attention-higher-ed-dsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why it\u2019s so hard to change a culture [Satell] &#8212; Pay attention higher ed! [DSC]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaltonto.com\/2024\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-change-a-culture\/\"><strong>Here\u2019s why it\u2019s so hard to change a culture<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from digitaltonto.com by Greg Satell<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Lou Gerstner, writing about his legendary turnaround at IBM, said, \u201cCulture isn\u2019t just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value\u2026 What does the culture reward and punish \u2013 individual achievement or team play, risk taking or consensus building?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Most business gurus would readily agree with that, but if you\u2019d ask them what culture actually is they would be hard pressed to give a coherent answer. Anthropologists, on the other hand, are much more rigorous in their approach and most would agree that<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> three essential elements of a culture are norms, rituals and behaviors.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In a positive organizational culture, norms and rituals support behaviors that honor the mission of the enterprise. Negative cultures undermine that mission. A common problem with many transformation initiatives is that they focus on designing incentives to alter behaviors. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Unfortunately, unless you can shift norms and rituals, nothing is likely to change.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s why it\u2019s so hard to change a culture &#8212; from digitaltonto.com by Greg Satell Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Lou Gerstner, writing about his legendary turnaround at IBM, said, \u201cCulture isn\u2019t just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,61,115,302,112,840,3,431,321,214,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-culture","category-higher-education","category-organizational-change","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92735,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92732\/revisions\/92735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}