What makes good culture?

Honesty, altruism and purpose. If you’d ask me to put it in three words. But what does that mean really?

I’m not alone here. My social body is standing behind me, family, friends, colleagues and my current emotional well-being and capacity to realise my goals depends deeply on the sincerity and integrity of those relationships.

I still carry that shame about sadness and crying. Unprocessed shame will eventually come out as blame on others, anger, accusation, even tho I can’t explain and will be seeking reasons to justify it or will let it out so subtly that I won’t be telling the truth about it even to myself.

Who creates good culture?

Culture is the product of our conscious and unconscious actions. Individuals aligned with their purpose, knowing the right thing and doing it, in the right place at the right time. They are aware of their surrounding and situation, what they bring to it and how react to it. They have the tools to help them face their fear and stress, and not take it out on others. These leaders are often in positions of management but not only, acting as archetypal figures as parents do within family systems and aware of the subtleties in communication, power and belonging on the spectrum between selfishness and giving.

Peak performance.

You are really engaged and your personal sense of purpose that gets you up in the morning is fully aligned with organisational mission and the role that you are playing at work. When that magic happens, the stars align, you believe in the same vision, willing to take risks and grow as people in pursuit of that vision. Inspired.

I remember a sense of that, a sense of being in the flow, in dance performance and when passionately trying to change the world with a group of fiery and compassionate activists.

When a few years later, no one is stuck feeling disengaged, saying this is how it always been done. You a collective of the right people doing the right thing at the right time and place, still believing in the worthy cause and at worst, if you fail, at least you fail by daring greatly.

Is it enough? Striving for high achievement, inspired, how long will it last?

To be continued…

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