Corporate Culture: A Case of Monkey See, Monkey Do?

Did you ever wonder how your company’s culture – that set of beliefs, traditions, and behavioral norms that determines “the way things work around here” – came to be? Or why, when you try to change it, it seems so resistant?

Well, here’s a little story about a scientific experiment that shows how culture comes into being and why it is so resistant.

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