This week I posted “Filling Up Your Tent With Culture. Cleaning Up The Camping Site.” on my blog at Gantthead. “Let’s say wearing party hats and chanting “Kumbaya” is a big deal in your group culture. It took you an entire workshop to get your group to pick these cultural elements up. During your latest …
If you drink tea together every day at 4pm, it becomes a ritual. If people start bringing cookies to go with the tea, the ritual becomes stronger. While you are drinking tea, you are part of this Tea-Drinking Group. When you are not in the ritual, you’re out of the group. The ritual creates boundaries …
Bootstrapping – revealing a group culture. A culture is the element of a group that keeps its members together, committed to a shared cause. And as creating a culture can be creepy, bootstrapping uses storytelling, metaphors and visualization exercises to, well, bootstrap the process in a non-creepy way. Happy Bootstrapping. 1. The Story Of Your …
I got some mails. Yes, some people actually contact me. About bootstrapping. Creating culture. Without actually creating it. Because that is creepy. Examples they want. An ultimate example of throwing something to a wall, to see if it sticks. An Ultimate Bootstrapping Moment. In the movie Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise plays a sports agents in …
This week I posted “Freestyling. The Art Of Bootstrapping Culture.” on Gantthead.com: “I have wrecked my brain on how to create project cultures. Cultures are the rules how things are done within a group. Rituals, rules of engagements, language and visual clues that identify this specific group. A culture can be awesome. It can that …