If we are going to reform the ADF, ‘culture’ isn’t the answer
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If we are going to reform the ADF, ‘culture’ isn’t the answer
How does any organisation identify its own blind spots? One of the most significant changes made to the ADF in recent times was about who could work, not how they did so.
By Samantha Crompvoets
Credit:Dean Sewell, ADF
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Why do we so often reach for culture to explain organisational issues? Perhaps because it is intuitive to do so. It provides a signpost for organisation-wide characteristics and matters of importance. But does it provide clarity or obscurity when it comes to really understanding a problem? Does it lead to accountability, or is it a barrier to the taking of responsibility? How do you even know when you’ve achieved cultural change? Should we in fact be considering other ways of analysing and addressing dee