Culture: Post #8--Key Principles

Key Leadership Principles of Culture Change   #1 “Survival anxiety or guilt must be greater than learning anxiety.” #2 “Learning anxiety must be reduced rather than increasing survival anxiety.” #3 “The change goal must be defined concretely in terms of the specific problem you are trying to fix, not as ‘culture change.’” #4 “Old cultural elements can be destroyed by eliminating the people who ‘carry’ those elements, but new cultural elements can only be learned if the new behavior succeeds.” #5 “Culture change is always transformative change that requires a period of unlearning that is psychologically painful.”