Quotes about Culture

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

Obeying the will of God takes priority over satisfying cultural expectations.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

it is far more natural, and common, for leaders to avoid holding people accountable.

a leader's first priority is to create an environment where others can do these things and that cannot happen if they are not having effective meetings.

last frontier of competitive advantage will be the transformation of unhealthy organizations into healthy ones

Trust is just one of five behaviors that cohesive teams must establish to build a healthy organization.

I have found that most leaders spend the majority of their time and energy making their organizations smarter, with relatively little effort directed toward making them healthier.

an organization that has properly identified its values and adheres to them will naturally attract the right employees and repel the wrong ones.

You might find contradictory taboos. In one culture it might seem shocking to think x, while in another it was shocking not to. But I think usually the shock is on one side. In one culture x is ok, and in another it's considered shocking. My hypothesis is that the side that's shocked is most likely to be the mistaken one.

Lack of empathy is associated with intelligence, to the point that there is even something of a fashion for it in some places.