Framework: How to read your team’s culture without launching a transformation programme

Most culture work fails before anybody does a single thing wrong.It fails in the meeting where a bad engagement score lands on the table. The room gets uncomfortable, somebody suggests a listening session, somebody else says maybe it’s time for a values refresh, and within 40 minutes there’s a plan. Visible, schedulable, reportable next quarter.Not one person has asked what’s actually growing here, or why.I’ve spent years inside other people’s cultures, and I can te