Disrupting Corporate Culture

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 The 5 Myths of Culture

Your Platform Is Already Burning

Myth 1: Culture Starts at the Top

Value Engineering and Self-Enhancement

It’s What Good Leaders Do

Problem 1: Leaders Overestimate Their Own Influence

Problem 2: Complex Change Does Not Happen through Individual Influence

Problem 3: For a Leader’s Beliefs to Take Hold in the Organization, They Have to Be There to Begin With

Problem 4: Culture Is Not the Sum of Personalities (The Leaders’ or Anyone Else)

Problem 5: Language Alone Does Not Change Culture

Leadership and Culture: There Is a Connection

Myth 2: Culture Is a Physical Thing

Problem: Culture Doesn’t Exist – or Does It?

Culture Doesn’t Make Us Do Anything

Myth 3: One Company, One Culture ...