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8. Building the Future - Cultivating a Legacy of Culture.

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The significance of legacy.  Leaders that aspire to go beyond the achievements of quarterly measurements should have built a culture that endures even after he has left. Cultural legacy is not just a visual artefact, it is the collection of rituals, choices and routines that are perpetuated by personnel after a change in leadership. This article clarifies the change in methodology whereby short-time cultural interventions have been replaced with the long-term cultural stewardship.     Why "legacy" culture matters Whereas most organisations are capable of producing a temporary performance blossom, a small proportion develop strong cultural roots to achieve ongoing success during leadership transition, unsettling, and growth (Schein, 2017).     The north star operating has a purpose.   When purpose is concretized in the course of arriving at decisions, it becomes an operational principle. According to Edmondson (2019), purpose has to enable psyc...