Understanding Culture and Influencing Change

Abstract

This paper provides the strategic leader guidelines and insights to leverage the impact of culture on groups and individuals to affect change and accomplish organizational objectives. It enables a leader's understanding of culture and how to influence change by: defining culture, comparing different cultures, identifying cultural change agents and messaging change. It offers a model to help strategic leaders identify change agents using the Myers-Briggs personality types.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA521978

Entities

People

  • Robert C. Horneck

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artifacts
  • Classification
  • Connectors
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamics
  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Embedding
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Group Dynamics
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Organizational Psychology.