Building a Data-Driven Culture: What the C-Suite Needs to Understand First
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Argues that culture is an effect, not a lever, and the real intervention is the company’s nervous system: decision flows, control points and integration gaps. Introduces hologram theory — leaders’ projections bend corporate spacetime — and a pragmatic organizational audit matrix to map multi‑dimensional mental models. Recommends incremental steps (one step in a thousand mile journey), warns against posters and org‑chart fiddling, cites 50–60 factors to align and failed large surveys (50–70k) as examples.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Building a data-driven culture
- 0:27Culture resists data
- 1:30Illusion of aligning mindsets
- 3:22Organizational design dynamics
- 5:12Myth of static company design
- 6:37CEOs distort reality
- 7:42Hologram theory in companies
- 9:26Teamwork means different things
- 12:00Five elements of organizational design
- 13:06Control as company nervous system
- 14:32Structural obsession in management
- 16:01Culture from control decisions
- 17:49Changing culture at root
- 18:53Organizational design is multi-dimensional
- 20:00CEOs as composers and conductors
- 21:08Q&A on scaling mindsets
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