How do you ‘hack culture’? You
might first ask me what ‘hacking culture’ means.
Well! It’s about creating a
significantly different, and not an incremental, vision of culture – and finding
non-traditional ways to move towards that vision.
Now, let’s get back to ‘how’
question.
You could use 2 different
approaches to ‘hack culture’.
On one hand, you could get a
large group of diverse people in a room – and ask them to throw caution to wind
and come up with innovative ideas. In this approach, you are providing no
structure/tools to think innovatively.
On other hand, you could provide
people in room some structure/tools to help them start thinking differently.
First approach may work in a
situation where team itself brings very diverse perspectives to table –probably
because of their diverse backgrounds. Secondly team members are accustomed to a
lot of change – and hence will not be too wedded on to the current culture.
Second approach may work in a
situation where people in room might have very similar thoughts/ideas - probably
because of similar backgrounds. Secondly team members might have a seen a long
period of certainty – and so are probably emotionally attached to the current
culture.
-
Sourav
