Culture Is Inherited. Instruction Is Forgotten.
What are we teaching... without realizing it?Most leadership development focuses on instruction: how to give feedback, run meetings, communicate strategy. But beneath instruction is something far more durable: inheritance. People learn from what leaders tolerate, reward, ignore, and do under pressure.In this essay, David explores what happens when the stated culture and the inherited culture diverge. Drawing on years at Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery, and elsewhere, he examines how leaders who genuinely believed they were building cultures of trust were unknowingly teaching something very…
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