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Not a Cultural Fit: Anatomy of Organization Breakdown
PRESENTED BY
Laine Minor
IT & Human Architect
What exactly does it mean to be “not a cultural fit” for an organization? Is it a slightly more polite euphemism for “that person was terrible at their job”? Or maybe, “they had no social skills to speak of”? What happens when it means that it's the organization that's…kind of terrible at their job? What if no one is actually terrible at their job and “not a cultural fit” is a simple statement of fact?
In this talk, Laine and Josh will share the experiences they've collected over the years with multiple organizations, and how the relationship between person and organization can break down. They'll look at why that relationship fails, what it looks like when it's failing, how to salvage it when possible - and when to know it's time to choose something else. They'll also talk about how to find where you DO belong, either within an organization or outside of it.
This session is intended to be mostly discussion, but please also feel welcome if you just want to listen.
Laine Minor
Laine has been a developer, a technical lead, a stay at home mom, and an IT architect – and that last was a broad enough title that it let her do both technical things AND cultural things.
She realized then that that was her most favorite place to be, in that in-between place of technology and culture.
She also learned that enabling people and organizations is HARD work, and that explaining that in-between place can help.
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