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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Symbols, Stories, Rituals...it is all over the place.


Throughout these last two weeks, every time I see a television commercial, a billboard advertisement, a magazine advertisement, store symbols and school mascots, I think about what is their desired message to us?  Is it meeting their company's mission or vision, is there a common understanding of the intent of the message it is presenting to the intended audience.....?  My brain tries to analyze not only the culture of the organization that is in front of me at the moment, but I start thinking about the Organizational Diagnosis. 

Does anyone in that organization think there is a gap between what is and what ought to be?  I think of my father's business (he is now retired), because there was an owner and a manager, one person could not make the necessary changes without both of them agreeing that change needing to occur. It would take both of them to make those changes.   


Who will take the ownership to begin the discussion?  If change begins, what will be the interventions and who will employ them and who will strike against them in the beginning? There are boundaries to consider, and environmental issues to consider.  So many elements when looking at organizational diagnosis as well as continuing a positive structural culture.  Balancing those balls and not dropping them looks challenging! 

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