The Culturegram
Ideas

Essays on people, work, and the cultures we build

Longer reads on how work actually happens. We would rather name a pattern you already recognise than hand you another framework.

Growth, change, culture: the balancing act
The first issue The report

Growth, change, culture: the balancing act

A synthesis of founder, people leader, and employee perspectives on the challenges of growth, change, and trade-offs, and how people technology is evolving alongside.

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Essays and field notes

The wisdom of fathers - lost, found, and remembered Leadership

The wisdom of fathers - lost, found, and remembered

A few years after losing my father, the lessons he lived by have only grown clearer. Most of them turn out to be about how to lead, and how to treat the people who do the work.

Ordinary, flawed and genius People

Ordinary, flawed and genius

We praise women for being selfless and nurturing, and almost never for being geniuses. That imbalance is subtle, and it quietly limits how women get to define themselves.