Culture quotes

I've collected together some culture quotes from previous book snippets:

Culture makes its presence known through patterns that persist over time.
Jerry Weinberg (from here)

Building a culture takes years of applying a consistent approach with consistent principles.
Jeffrey Liker (from here)

Culture makes language, then language makes culture.
Jerry Weinberg (from here)

Culture is what we do when we do not consciously decide what to do.
Russell Ackoff (from here)

Consultants who see culture change as something distinct from the work and, as a corollary, something that can be the subject of an intervention, miss the point. When you change the way work is designed and managed, and make those who do the work the central part of the intervention, the culture changes dramatically as a consequence.
John Seddon (from here)

One aspect of almost every culture is the belief in the utter superiority of that culture.
Donella Meadows (from here)

Culture change is free [because] it's a product of the system.
John Seddon (from here)

Culture is changing faster than it has ever changed before...what once took many generations of gradual development is now attempted by a single individual.
Christopher Alexander (from here)

Successful change can only come about in the context of a clear understanding of what may never change, what the organization stands for... the organization's culture... If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. When there is no defining vision, the only way the organization can define itself is its stasis.
Tom DeMarco (from here)

As Freud and his followers observed, our own culture tends to stress that which can be controlled and to deny that which cannot.
Edward T. Hall (from here)

One of the most sensitive measures of the cultural pattern of any organization is how quickly it finds and removes problems.
Jerry Weinberg (from here)