From ‘Ashes of Problem Employees’ to Smug Front Desk Statues: What Workplace Artifacts Say About Culture

We talk (and I write) a lot about workplace culture. I talk about desiring and working toward a certain type of workplace culture, where the term “Lean Culture” might apply. There are different ways to define the phrase “workplace culture,” such as: “It’s the way we do things around here.” But it’s not just doing, it’s also about thinking. What is “our way”?? What drives our “doing”? One more formal definition of culture is: “… … Continue reading From ‘Ashes of Problem Employees’ to Smug Front Desk Statues: What Workplace Artifacts Say About Culture