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How corporate culture change dies a thousand small deaths
- Corporate culture change often fails not due to overt resistance, but through subtle neglect and passive sabotage by employees who fear losing control or relevance within existing systems.
- Quiet saboteurs, without realizing it, resist change by sticking to old habits, favoring comfort over curiosity, and subtly influencing others to do the same.
- Leaders, tasked with driving change, can unknowingly become obstacles if they fail to understand behavioral science and rely on superficial strategies like updating vision statements or launching campaigns.
- Systems designed to support change can backfire by turning meaningful work into performative actions focused on measurable outcomes, discouraging innovation and experimentation.
- Culture change often gets reduced to talking about it rather than actually implementing behavioral changes that demand unlearning and honest self-reflection from leaders.
- Organizational transformation frequently falls into the trap of prioritizing performance over real change, leading to the triumph of safe mediocrity over messy innovation.
- To achieve real culture change, organizations must confront quiet saboteurs with awareness, encourage honest reflection, and create systems that value vision over mere visibility.
- Leaders need to embrace the messiness and discomfort of transformation, unlearn old patterns, and understand that genuine change requires courage, persistence, and conscious effort.
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