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Five Archetypes of Culture

By Andy Freire - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, provides five basic cultural archetypes into which organizations fall: 1) Achievement, 2) Innovation, 3) One-team, 4) People-first or 5) Customer-focused. Friere argues that ultimately organizations need to develop strength in all five archetypes. However, Friere emphasizes that organizations cannot develop all five at once. Instead, organizations can only successfully develop one archetype at a time, a process that requires a few years of focus on each individual archetype sequentially.

Course Index

  1. What You Do Defines Your Culture
  2. Three Building Blocks of Organizational Culture
  3. Five Archetypes of Culture
  4. Culture Archetypes: Customer-focused Culture
  5. Culture Archetypes: One-team Culture
  6. Culture Archetypes: Innovation Culture
  7. Culture Archetypes: Achievement Culture
  8. Culture Archetypes: People-first Culture
  9. Building Five Cultures in One Organization