As soon as you start someone will say, ‘Oh! We don’t do things like that around here.’ You have hit the first signs of the corporate culture. ‘How we do things around here’ is a powerful bond for those already in the organization. Some would call long-established organizational cultures ‘psychic prisons’. But what do you do next? Do you adapt to it, knowing that you may be doing something which you believe is then less effective for the organization, or do you try to demonstrate the superiority of your methods and try to change the culture? These are difficult decisions for incomers and can
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