While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change.
One last source of corporate stupidity we came across was company culture. Often, these cultures imprison employees in narrow ways of viewing the world ...
Stupefied How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door | André Spicer
You don't have to read these unless you wish to, but we might touch upon them in conversation
But what about the memory of the field you are studying?
Taylor built one of the greatest teams in the history of high-technology and kept it together for years.
Heroic lone-wolf entrepreneurs may be the preferred heroes of narratives spun by the media,
but history has shown us that teams—and the networks that come from them—are the true engines behind innovation in Silicon Valley and far beyond.
No one understood this better than Bob Taylor.
