COLIN ON CULTURE
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When vulnerability helps and when it costs
It depends on what’s said and who’s watching
Permission to be pessimistic
Imagine you’ve failed before you start
The arse-covering cc
Why copying in managers erodes team trust
A screen flattens everyone
Why hiring over video costs you good candidates
Is transformation really required?
Matching effort to what culture needs
Same failure, different company and country
Why technology failures keep repeating
Show me the change
Why invisible change loses momentum fast
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 last 12 months
The things that have shaped my year
You’re allowed to be rubbish
Bad days signal humanity, not failure
The silent meeting participant
How AI meeting recorders reduce honest conversation