32 min
Don't ever try changing your Corporate Culture like this MarkUp News: Challenging Mainstream Management Advice
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- Management
If you want to change your corporate culture or core values for the better you are likely to cause more harm than good. Although common wisdom and mainstream management advice suggests that an organizational culture is an object at our disposal, our daily experience should teach us what solid social science has known for decades: You can't manufacture a corporate culture.
0:00 - Intro
3:45 - Corporate culture: Some background information on the topic
6:49 - Introduction to the article that promotes the idea of manufacturing corporate culture
14:40 - The false assumption the article is making about company culture
19:28 - How culture emerges and what shapes corporate values
22:55 - Why proclaiming core values often leads to harm
27:20 - What can you do instead of trying to change the corporate culture?
30:22 - Wrapping up the episode
Article by Jim Schleckser: https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/why-your-company-needs-values-not-a-rulebook.html
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Please make suggestions for articles to deconstruct in the comments section or via email to mail@markup.news
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About MarkUp News: Challenging Mainstream Management Advice
As a leader, how do you know if the mainstream management advice you consume is reliable? And if everyone follows the same opinion, how do you avoid mediocracy? In this show Mark Poppenborg dissects mainstream publications on management, organisational change and work as a whole. Train your critical thinking, get practical inspiration and benefit from an unconventional and highly successful perspective on leadership and organisational design. Mark is the founder and creative force behind intrinsify, a group of companies that leads businesses towards modern leadership, post-bureaucratic organisational design and purposeful work by advising and educating decision makers in key roles.
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How to follow and connect to Mark Poppenborg
Mark's website: https://markup.news/websiteen
Mark's website in German: https://markup.news/websitede
Mark on LinkedIn: https://markup.news/linkedin
Mark on Twitter: https://markup.news/twitter
Mark on Instagram: https://markup.news/instagram
intrinsify: https://markup.news/intrinsify
If you want to change your corporate culture or core values for the better you are likely to cause more harm than good. Although common wisdom and mainstream management advice suggests that an organizational culture is an object at our disposal, our daily experience should teach us what solid social science has known for decades: You can't manufacture a corporate culture.
0:00 - Intro
3:45 - Corporate culture: Some background information on the topic
6:49 - Introduction to the article that promotes the idea of manufacturing corporate culture
14:40 - The false assumption the article is making about company culture
19:28 - How culture emerges and what shapes corporate values
22:55 - Why proclaiming core values often leads to harm
27:20 - What can you do instead of trying to change the corporate culture?
30:22 - Wrapping up the episode
Article by Jim Schleckser: https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/why-your-company-needs-values-not-a-rulebook.html
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Please make suggestions for articles to deconstruct in the comments section or via email to mail@markup.news
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About MarkUp News: Challenging Mainstream Management Advice
As a leader, how do you know if the mainstream management advice you consume is reliable? And if everyone follows the same opinion, how do you avoid mediocracy? In this show Mark Poppenborg dissects mainstream publications on management, organisational change and work as a whole. Train your critical thinking, get practical inspiration and benefit from an unconventional and highly successful perspective on leadership and organisational design. Mark is the founder and creative force behind intrinsify, a group of companies that leads businesses towards modern leadership, post-bureaucratic organisational design and purposeful work by advising and educating decision makers in key roles.
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How to follow and connect to Mark Poppenborg
Mark's website: https://markup.news/websiteen
Mark's website in German: https://markup.news/websitede
Mark on LinkedIn: https://markup.news/linkedin
Mark on Twitter: https://markup.news/twitter
Mark on Instagram: https://markup.news/instagram
intrinsify: https://markup.news/intrinsify
32 min