We develop habits and styles of language around issues that as much help create what are our objects of inquiry as they describe them. This story of conversations with a business school academic shows how this is true of organisational cultures.
A business school academic asked me this morning about what might be the fundamental point of “all this culture research stuff” going on within her department.
So I said I’d come back to her after I had a chance to really think about it and not just offer some generic answer, such as it being about fostering climates in which multiple needs can co-exist and flourish. I wanted to speak her language in the first instance, even if that might not be my own first choice.
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