“Medium Engagement Activities” are the death of culture creation.
Expecting someone to show up for a ~1-hour or more event every week that helps shape your culture is great for culture creation, or requiring them to wear a dress code—large commitments are good in the early stages.
Removing trivial inconveniences to following your values and rules is great for building culture, doing things that require no or low engagement but help shape group cohesion. Design does a lot here—no commitment tools to shape culture are great during early stages.
But medium commitment tools are awful, a series of little things that take 5-50 minutes a week to work on—these things are death to early stage cultures. It’s death by a 1000 cuts of things they can’t see clear immediate benefit for, and which they can see clear immediate cost for.
I don’t know why exactly this is, and haven’t really mapped out what’s behind this intuition, it’s something about the benefits of building identity vs. the time required, it’s ushaped, the tails are a much more effective tradeoff than the middle.
“Medium Engagement Activities” are the death of culture creation.
Expecting someone to show up for a ~1-hour or more event every week that helps shape your culture is great for culture creation, or requiring them to wear a dress code—large commitments are good in the early stages.
Removing trivial inconveniences to following your values and rules is great for building culture, doing things that require no or low engagement but help shape group cohesion. Design does a lot here—no commitment tools to shape culture are great during early stages.
But medium commitment tools are awful, a series of little things that take 5-50 minutes a week to work on—these things are death to early stage cultures. It’s death by a 1000 cuts of things they can’t see clear immediate benefit for, and which they can see clear immediate cost for.
I don’t know why exactly this is, and haven’t really mapped out what’s behind this intuition, it’s something about the benefits of building identity vs. the time required, it’s ushaped, the tails are a much more effective tradeoff than the middle.