The culture of your work civilization is a combination of personality, expression, tradition, and custom unique to your group. Although in part codified in your civilization’s written laws, culture goes much deeper into the psychological fiber of your people—unwritten laws of behavior set the expectations for your culture to follow. One of the hardest things for a leader to control is the unwritten law of the civilization.
“In a reprographics environment, you have many distinct cultures: sales, production, corporate and management. Together they form your overall company culture; apart each strives to achieve their interpretation of the company vision, and yet each takes a different path based on a unique cultural perspective.“
If we examine the cultures of the Thomas civilization we find one unified vision for sales, production and management, but unique cultures, that form to achieve the vision. The vision for each is to “attain” the customer’s goal by working together as “a team” on their “projects.” When sales fulfills the vision, they gain a customer and earn a commission. When production fulfills the vision, they feel the pride of producing a quality, on-time product. When management fulfills the vision, they earn a valuable customer and achieve a financial profit. Our goal as the learning & executive team is to help you understand how each culture interrelates toward fulfilling our vision.