What in the world could change the Cocaine Bear Status of your break room fridge? Throwing everything out? Scrubbing the shelves with acid? That won’t help. The shelves will fill right back up in a week or two.
No, you’ll have to address people’s choices about where they go for lunch, how much they eat, how they package leftovers—and why a stack of Wendy’s napkins does not actually require refrigeration.
This little parable has a widespread application: what’s happening within is nearly always related to what’s happening beyond.
This week on the Mode/Switch Pod, special guest Debra Rienstra, a climate writer and activist, talks about what’s happening within and beyond your company. It’s a conversation, in other words, about businesses and their neighborhoods.
For us Mode/Switchers—David, LaShone, Emily, Craig, and Haley—the biggest surprise was this insight:
If you want to care for your company’s culture, you gotta care for your company’s place.
