The Game is Afoot: How Leaders Can Assess Their Org Culture Like Sherlock Holmes
Rhetta Standifer • October 22, 2025
On my Substack this week, we're going to don our deerstalker hat and go looking for org culture clues! Enjoy!
Walk through your company. Be still and look around you — what do you see? How are people working? What do you hear? What’s the tempo of work? How do people interact? What’s the workplace environment like?
These are all clues about your culture. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to see and understand what your culture is really about. And when you collect these clues, you can assess your company’s culture like the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.
Join us on my Substack and read about how leaders can deduce things about their org culture using the techniques of Holmes at https://rhettastandifer.substack.com/
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