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Stuart Macgregor

A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help - 1 views

  • Better teamwork requires perpetual mutual helping, within and across hierarchical boundaries
  • But what I’m talking about is something much more profound and essential: knowing how to work with one another as equal partners in an operational setting.
  • Because they think that to change culture, you simply introduce a new culture and tell people to follow it. That will never work. Instead, you have to conduct a business analysis around whatever is triggering your perceived need to change the culture. You solve that business problem by introducing new behaviors.
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  • The types of teams that we need in organizations today are like cardiac surgical units. The surgeon, the anesthesiologist, the perfusionist, and the nurse are in immediate, here-and-now interdependence.
  • In that kind of team, subordinates have to help superiors regularly; everyone has to act as if they all have a stake in the outcome
  • “Is this just an individual resisting, or are group norms at play, based in a particular subculture?”
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    Edgar Schein, MIT's sage of organizational culture, explains why the quest for accountability should start with interdependence.
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