Tuesday, September 30, 2008

6.2 - Take me out to the ball game...

Box 4.5 discusses how Trujillo broke the baseball game experience into 3 main themes: business, community, and drama.

What drew my attention was the point that culture may often be highly subjective. Just as artifacts represent a company's actions, culture of a company may be perceived very different to different people. Call me un-American for not valuing the experience, but I've never liked going to ballgames. Despite liking sports in general, I've always found baseball to be relatively boring. As a result, I know my perspectives of the culture of attending a baseball game will be strikingly different than the man next to me... painted head to toe in home team colors, yelling at the top of his lungs, and waving a foam hand with a sense of reckless abandon.

Not sure what my point is other than there are many instances where a company's culture may be viewed in different lights.

1 comment:

Sree said...

You make a very important point. No two people are same so they will never follow exactly same culture. In US this is more important as here we have people from various cultures and countries which makes it more diverse.

What I think is more important is that if the understanding that no two people or cultures are same and learn and respect those values then every thing will be good.

If respecting other cultures and trying to understand them is part of our culture we will be able to handle the situations that arise due to cultural differences better.