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An article by Adam Stadtmiller on cultivating change without the cost of relationships.
Superficial change can be made quickly, cultural change takes much longer.
From the article:

One of the most explosive errors that a leader can make is to mistake changing things for changing culture. Changing things is easy and offers quick emotional payoff for leaders. It also can cause immediate angst. Changing culture takes time and gives less instant satisfaction to leaders. You can change lots of outward things and still maintain a dysfunctional culture. Healthy change requires healthy culture. You can make most any change you want if you do it within a safe and healthy culture.
Like many of you reading this article, I can walk into an organization and immediately see where the leaks are and diagnose what needs patching. A non-existent childcare check-in system, pixelated PowerPoints, and a ramshackle newcomer follow-up system were just a few of our soft spots. These things were easy to spot. Discerning culture can take months. This is because culture is systemic and takes more than a couple interactions with a few people to understand.

Read the whole post here.