Trish's Blog

Your values aren’t what you publish. They’re what you tolerate.

Culture doesn’t change because you announced it. It changes when you stop letting the same small behaviours slide; because you’re busy, because you’re tired, because it’s “not the right time”.

Culture is the compound interest of tiny decisions.
The question you don’t ask.
The challenge you dodge.
The perspective you leave out because the meeting is already full.
The messy idea you dismiss because it doesn’t sound smart enough yet.

Because while you’re focused on the big visible moves, culture is being written quietly underneath you by repetition. Over time, people learn exactly what’s welcome here. And they learn what’s risky.

Then you get what every leader says they don’t want: less contribution, less candour, less thinking, more compliance. Not because your people are disengaged. Because they’re paying attention.

That’s culture. Lived, not declared. Weird Wisdom® at Work exists for that reality. Not the wall‑poster version.

Every day you teach people how this place really works. And sooner than you think, they believe you.