Rituals - Short bites. Episode #1 - Hilton Barbour Episode #1 Rituals

Name: Rituals - Short bites. Episode #1 - Hilton Barbour Episode #1 Rituals
Uploaded: 2019-10-13T20:28:06+00:00
Duration: 2 min
Channel: Virginie Glaenzer
Description: In this segment, the speaker argues that organizational rituals should be deliberately designed with clear outcomes rather than followed out of habit…

13 Oct 2019 · 2 min

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In this segment, the speaker argues that organizational rituals should be deliberately designed with clear outcomes rather than followed out of habit. Using the example of the ubiquitous Monday morning status call, they question its purpose, participants, and expected results, highlighting how many companies continue such rituals without scrutiny. The speaker notes that large organizations often fall into lazy, repetitive behaviors due to the difficulty of coordinating many people, and that the prevailing startup mindset that prizes speed can view introspection as a hindrance. However, they contend that purposeful, debated, and reaffirmed rituals can free an organization to focus on actions that truly matter, emphasizing the need for intentional design and periodic reassessment of rituals.

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accidentally. It's sustained deliberately and purposefully. I think your point about rituals within an organization, those equally have to be designed with purpose, with a very clear outcome. I think we get into rituals like the Monday morning status call, and For no other reason than it's Monday morning and we've had a status call in every company we've ever worked at. Very few organizations will step back from that ritualized behavior and say, does it serve us? How does it serve us? Who should participate? What is the outcome? I think rituals can often be lazy acts of repetitive behavior versus purposeful ones. But often, certainly in large organizations where it's difficult to cat herd, it can be very easy for us to fall into that laziness that says— that questions, why are we doing this action? What is the express outcome of this action? And who should participate, or who should not be allowed to participate in this action? That's often a degree of introspection that very few organizations have the time for. Have the capability for. And certainly in, in today's startup mentality, where speed is considered the ultimate aphrodisiac for every company, people will see that introspection is actually something that holds an organization back versus one that actually frees them to do the behaviors that matter. So all of that pontification from me aside, The notion of purposeful, deliberate, and perhaps occasionally debated and reaffirmed is probably the biggest part that I take from the introductory remarks that you made.