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Building cultures of sustainability

The lecture ‘Building cultures of sustainability’ explains and inspires. It explains why sustainability requires a collective mindshift and a culture change. Walter explains how culture works, why change is tough, and how you can manage it anyway. Because the transition towards a sustainable society is all about people and culture.

Sustainability requires a revision of the standard choices ingrained in the system, defaults we take for granted without questioning. It requires our management and leaders to set a good example and different performance indicators. And, perhaps the most difficult: it requires us to rewrite the unwritten rules.Culture consists of a set of beliefs, values and habits that are so perfectly logical for a group of people, they take them for granted implicitely. An new groupmember will hear...

Building strong tribes

Corporate anthropology studies contemporary organizations and companies. In these organisations you'll find some wonderful and interesting rituals, symbols and unwritten rules, forming the social tissue and influencing the way an organization works. By understanding the way culture is shaped and changes, building strong tribes, communities, organizations and teams becomes a whole lot easier.

Curious about how people build strong tribes? How you can create a team or department where people feel safe, cared for an are ready to great lengths for eachother? Curious to interpreting the unwritten rules? And looking for new ways to change culture and create a movement? Then, it helps to look as an anthropologist and identify the internal logics. Culture consists of a set of beliefs, values and habits that are so perfectly logical for a group of people, they take them...

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Building cultures of sustainability

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