The Undercurrent of Culture

Essays on the company beneath the company.

Every organization has two lives: the one written in its strategy and its values, and the one that actually runs beneath the surface. The second is the real one. It is the current, and everything floats on it.

There is the organization on the values poster in the lobby, and there is the real one — the actual behaviors, unspoken norms, and lived culture that determine what genuinely happens. The closing volume of the series, on reading the current you are actually swimming in.

Digital edition · 59 pages · instant download (PDF).