COLIN ON CULTURE
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Measuring culture change
Why you need a baseline
The storming dip
Why teams get worse before they get better
Walking before starting
How interviews reveal culture
10 signs you work in a culture of fear
How dread hides inside everyday behaviour
From worst to first
How one bank flipped their culture
Before the peak
Handy's Sigmoid Curve and when to change
People leave due to bad management
Why the skills gap goes untrained
The culture change accreditation trap
Why documentation alone won’t deliver change
Culture never stands still
Managing change when it’s needed most
Habit, not project
Strategy gets the attention whilst culture drifts
The silent meeting participant
How AI meeting recorders reduce honest conversation
The good kind of contagious
Why upbeat teams lift everyone around them
Project failure isn’t a technical skills problem
What actually derails delivery teams
Switching off together
Why muting your phone alone rarely works
Thigmomorphogenesis
Why sheltering new managers sets them up to fail
Purpose statements that nobody can recite
The test most leadership statements fail
Agency and communion: The big two
Why unchecked ambition wrecks healthy teams
The high performing toxic star
The real cost of protecting bad behaviour
Quelling the meeting silence
What a quiet room actually means
Psychological safety isn’t just about being nice
Why comfortable teams often hide problems