Day #582 - Then and Now

The history of culture

Culture is both a historic artefact, and also a contemporary space. But what is the relationship between those two things?

Does the past inform the present, or does it define it, or constrain it? Or is it simply a foundation that we build anything we like upon?

Historic culture is held in the stories that persist. The things we remember or are told. The artefacts or scars left behind. The folklore that surrounds us.

Contemporary culture is more clearly held in behaviour - ours and others.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider your own Organisational culture. Is it historic or current?

In younger Organisations there is no ‘historic’ component. Indeed, one of the first things they may need to do is to write their own origin story.