Monthly BookClub Discussion — #001
The Culture Code ‘The secrets of Highly successful groups’
By DanielCoyle
Short Brief by Khadar Iman.
Personally, it was not my choice to read this particular book, but one of my friends pushed me to read, and share catchy valuable ideas from book for changing and improving mindset and thinking patterns of people for better ecosystem, high performance, effective collaboration and vulnerability for more socially healthy community.
I accidentally entered the recently established, co-working space in Hargeisa, Somaliland, which is named Barkulan coworking space, at that time; I was looking for any valuable book that can attract to me for more reading. Fortunately, Ahmed Omer, the space founder shown and advertised a one book for me that is entitled ‘The Culture Code’ and its subtitle is ‘The Secret of Successful Groups’ by Daniel Coyle. In the first glance, it stimulated my brain chemistry to read quickly. In the third week, I presented the reading work to specially-selected group of young people from different institutions in both nature and size.
I was not mentally well-prepared, because, I never known about exactly the ingredients of groups that were coming Barkulan book discussion session. The lack of that acknowledgment made me to think twice at same time, in the first hand, I thought like a person who is going to a party which aimless, while in the second glance, it seems a person like a Professor with great area of specialisation, who planned to be the axis of battle ground in which, antagonists and protagonists are collaborating in somehow. Only thing, I knew that individuals have an interest in sharing concrete ideas from books than grey literature. Typically, the session was discussion in reflecting and challenging knowledge shared during the discussion of book ideas in the real ground for practical application.
The Culture Code believes that building psychological safety is an inevitably necessary for sustained high performing culture of teams. “Groups succeed not because its members are smarter but because they are safer.”
The book thinking that sharing vulnerability the center of connectivity and belongingness “If building safety is the ‘glue’ for group belonging, and then having a shared vulnerability is the ‘muscle to translate connection into trusting cooperation’.
“Strong cultures don’t hide their weaknesses; they make a habit of sharing them, so they can improve together.”
Finally, third, ideas that culture code reflects that is establishing purpose and thinking with one mind.
“It’s not about nice-sounding value statements — it’s about flooding the zone with vivid narratives that work like GPS signals, guiding your group toward its goal.”
The book slaved number of scientific experiments, which is captured and written in simple and easy way for deep thinking and full understanding of how effective and high performing groups work in certain environment. In the book, three proved skills of effectively performing groups applied and sustained their success in particular field.
In the sight of critical thinking, Author developed a habit of writing which established a strong culture that enabled a reader to understand and employ the message of the book in easy way, if he/she desires to change the culture of a particular team for high performance and effective work for better productivity and creativity.
In the book, employed smart methods and approaches of story telling
1. It is written in simple way for better understanding
2. It employed scientific tools in demonstrating practical stories
3. It dogged the practical ground in deep down for cultivating healthy seeds for effective teams
4. It is simply critique the traditional norms and forks of team leadership
5. It is putting you in place that you can innovate leadership of your team in some extent in the result of many possibilities to create and lead team for high performance rather than believing two plus two equals four.
6. It is changing your thinking pattern towards ingredients of successful culture of team in particular context
7. It is stimulating your curiosity and critical thinking in group interaction and proximity for belongingness and psychological safety. It is giving you clue of great signals of establishing a safe environment for better interaction and collaboration in creative and smart way, high performing group with well-established purpose those are thinking with one mind.
These statements are widely adapted as culture code in highly-performing groups
1. You are part of this group.
2. This group is special; we have high standards here.
3. I believe you can reach those standards.
The book asking you, some crazy questions that can lead to logical answers for high performance according to talents, skills, experiences and intelligences of groups features, for instance, Spaghetti-Marshmallow Tower Model validated the illusion of two plus two equals four is not right in some times, rather than two plus two produces ten when turn around the other side of the con for deep thinking and full understanding of efficiency and effectiveness of team in cause of great productivity and creativity to enable better ecosystem of organisations.
One question with twenty two words: Why do certain groups add up to be greater than the sum of their parts, while others add up to be less?
These questions are answered in Spaghetti towering theory in testing the situations of different environments by controlling and experimenting interactions, collaborations and sharing signals of safety and vulnerability for selected particular groups with distinct age, professions, and experiences.
