Creating a Culture of Constraint

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In a culture of freedom or a culture of constraint, you're actually allowed to do anything unless we've said you can't. So we're eliminating possibility space instead of creating it. And so a business is no different and an organization is no different. When we choose a purpose, that's a constraint. We're saying we're going to go over here instead of over there. In a culture of permission, you have to write everything down because nobody's allowed to doanything unless it's told. But in a culture offreedom or constraint, I only have to write down the things that I think are really unclear or really dangerous. Everything else is possible.

Happy new year! We're not really resolution-making types, but the incrementing of the annum is a good time to take a breath and think about some ways we might want to approach our work differently. On this episode, we took a pretty big swing at "culture" — sitting down with Aaron Dignan, founder of Murmur, author of Brave New Work (and host of the eponymous podcast) — to discuss some of the ways modern organizations are, well, broken! From there, to the analysts within those organizations, to frameworks and approaches for getting to a better way of working, it was a brain-stretching way to kick off 2023! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.