The Cultural Mind
A periodic newsletter bridging the gap between social science and mythology on corporate culture, leadership, and change.
February 2025
Why Performance Reviews Won't Die
January 2025
Why Change Fails
Employee Engagement in a Death Spiral
November 2024
Corporate Culture is Not Working
Introducing an AI-generated podcast of the modern science of culture
September 2024
Does Transformational Leadership Require Narcissism?
(It’s All About How You Deal with Resistance)
July 2024
Practices, not People! (the key to culture change...)
March 2024
50 Years of Wishful Thinking:
How the Culture Industry Feeds You Candy You Can’t Stop Eating
In their Own Words: Cultural and Cognitive Neuroscientists on Culture
You Want to Get Serious About Transformation?
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December 2023
Culture Eats Transformation (here's why)
Same Data, Different Results!
Measuring or Evaluating?
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September 2023
Challenging Corporate Culture BS One Myth at a Time
Myth #1: Culture is how People Behave
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July 2023
Why Do We Continue to Get (Corporate) Culture So Wrong?
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April 2023
Change Leadership is Not Possible Without Your Own Capacity To Change
Why Do We Continue to Get Culture So Wrong? (part I)
Highlights from the Latest Gallup U.S. Employee Engagement Survey
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February 2023
Adaptive Leadership at Southwest
Management Consulting Snake Oil
Reducing and Quantifying What is Not Reducible and Quantifiable
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January 2023
The Southwest Airlines Meltdown
The 5 Myths of Culture
A New Way to Think About Culture
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October 2022
How Leaders Lie to Themselves about Disruption
Echo Chamber of the Orthodox: Big Consulting and Culture Change
Hockey, Honor, and Historicity
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September 2022
Digital Disruption
Corporate Culture Myths
Why Facts Aren't Just Facts