What is Your Decisioning Culture?

What Makes Up Your Culture?

Culture is like an individual’s personality. Individually, the personality is made up of the values, beliefs, interests, experiences, upbringing, and habits that create a person's behavior and actions.

Culture is also made up of the values, beliefs, underlying assumptions, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a mixed group of people. That culture is the behavior that results when a group arrives at a set of (generally unspoken and unwritten) rules for working together.

A corporate culture is made up of the life experiences that each employee brings to the workplace. That culture is particularly influenced by the organization's founder, executives, and other managerial staff because of their role in decision making and strategic direction.

How Do You See Culture?

The visual and verbal components of an organization's culture are noticeable every day at work. Whether you are walking through the work area, sitting in an office, attending a meeting, or eating in the lunchroom, the organization's culture surrounds you and permeates your working life and even influences your daily decisioning.

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From the Culture Club to the Culture of Corruption, culture is a versatile word with applications of several dimensions. Culture can be created, directed, developed, refined, but also destroyed. In all, it takes on a life of its own either consciously or unconsciously.

Point here is that as individuals or as members of a larger corporate, social or other human segment, we have a culture.

Question: With that in mind, would it not be wiser to become more aware and involved in the positive development of your own culture and how it affects your thinking and decisioning…or not?

As always…you decide.