David G. White Jr, PhD, is a partner and co-founder of
Ontos Global, and a cognitive anthropologist focusing on new approaches to organizational culture and change based on the emerging science of the cultural mind. At Ontos Global he helps organizations manage and sustain transformation, working with companies such as ITT, Fidelity Investments, Pratt & Whitney, and CVS. Prior to Ontos he held positions at Microsoft, Mercer HR Consulting, and Lotus Development (IBM). He’s also a professional jazz guitarist and composer. His new book is "
Disrupting Corporate Culture: How Cognitive Science Alters Accepted Beliefs About Culture and Culture Change and Its Impact on Leaders and Change Agents" (Taylor & Francis, July 2020). Learn more at
ontosglobal.com/team/david-white.
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Friday, July 17, 2020
Will the COVID-19 pandemic impact corporate cultures? If so, how? That is a deceptively hard question. The quick answer is that it already has. But underneath the surface lies a more complicated answer. To get at it, we need to answer two questions. First, what is culture? And second, how is culture changed by events like pandemics?
