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Roshan drinks a company’s culture — a smoothie of old vision statements and borrowed values — to show what happens when nobody designs it.
Bad culture just accumulates. A bit of the founder's habits. A dash of the last crisis. Whatever the loudest department gets away with. Malaysians have a word for this: rojak. Culture isn't what you announce — it's what people experience, repeatedly. And rituals are values with a calendar invite.
Read the full article: You don't have a culture problem. You have a culture design problem. · Try the ritual: Values With a Calendar Invite
An earlier version of this piece was first published on LinkedIn.
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