Thanks for your comment Richard. I agree with yo...

2010-01-05T11:12:04.382+01:00

Thanks for your comment Richard.

I agree with you that it's hard to identify a culture failure. One example the failure of sharing and collaboration with people outside your own team or business unit, which can be prevented by the existence of a "need to know" culture and which cannot be changed just by changing processes, systems or organization.

A business might have put creation of synergies, innovation, improved reuse and better decision making on their list of business priorities, and try to solve it with new processes and technologies. The problem is that a "need to know" culture dominates the business and leads to subomtimization, lost innovations, redundant work, bad decisions etc. People don't share or tell others about what they are doing or have found unless they are explicitly asked to. This might be attributed to internal competition and lack of incentives for sharing and helping people outside ones own business unit, but the attitudes and behaviors these have lead to have unfortunately been rooted in the business culture.

You assert that "a culture failure ... signal...

2010-01-05T10:36:12.960+01:00

You assert that "a culture failure ... signals that something is fundamentally wrong".

Culture failures are interesting because they are ambiguous. I think one of the characteristics of "culture failure" is that people aren't even agreed if there is a failure at all, and if so what the nature of the failure is.

Do you have an example of something you would classify as a culture failure?

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