How to see the water… understanding the culture you work in

It’s how we do things round here

Organisational culture can be a slippery concept. It’s not something we often talk about in organisations (apart from saying “of course the culture is crucial”). We don’t need to talk about it because, at least when we’ve worked somewhere for a while, we just know how to behave. This leads to the problem where “the fish don’t know they’re in water”. We don’t know why we behave this way, we just know that it’s the way things are done round here…

Interesting piece. Read full piece at source: HERE