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Clive Shearer
Management
by Design
By Clive Shearer
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January 14, 2004

Management by Design: What 'pocket cultures' exist in your company?

  • Most corporations are not one big happy family, but 'pocket cultures' -- even negative ones -- can be assets.
    • By CLIVE SHEARER
    Special to the Journal

    What is the dominant culture in your office? Business theory supposes that the culture sets the tone for all the people in the organization.

    However, a uniform corporate culture is only possible in small companies. In all other organizations there cannot be one culture; there are several. Each culture is a small group of between two to 20 people, who work closely and tend to band together with a common mindset. I call these small groups "pocket cultures."


     
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