What do yo do when you are managing in an organisation that has a poor culture?<\/p>\n
This is the subject of a great post by Miki Saxon.<\/p>\n
She makes the point that the starting place has to be a conscious decision that this is a place where you want to be and do great work – in spite of the culture.\u00a0 The alternative is to indulge in a ‘martyr complex’ the kind of ‘poor me’ response that I often hear.\u00a0 This\u00a0 usually appears as a belief that ‘there is nothing I can do to provide a great service and excellence until those above me get their act sorted’.<\/p>\n
This is a convenient belief and a powerful one.\u00a0 But it does little to help us make progress.\u00a0 It lets us off the hook, allows us to avoid responsibility and put the blame elsewhere.\u00a0 Once enough of us are doing this – and our beliefs are re-enforcing each other –\u00a0 it can start to feel like a truth.\u00a0 However it is still just a belief and we can choose to drop it!<\/p>\n
So if you take a conscious decision to keep working in a poor culture you must try to reject this belief and take all the repsonsibility that you can for making things better.<\/p>\n
You can read the full post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n