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Die Architektur der Kultur (The architecture of culture)
Issue 07 – July/August 2026, focus topic “Culture — values shape organisations” · WEKA Business Media AG, Zurich
Authors: Joëlle Bühler, Dejan Popovic
What it is about
Written for boards and executive teams, the article argues that culture is not a matter of mission statements but of leadership and governance.
Culture emerges where decisions are made every day: in decision paths, roles and structures that either enable responsibility or quietly prevent it.
Psychological safety is described not as a matter of climate but as the result of consistent decisions and load-bearing structures.
From that perspective the authors derive the integrative approach to leadership and culture that underpins the Architecture of Leadership and Culture programme.
Key points
- Culture is a hard success factor with direct impact on performance, innovation and retention — not a soft one.
- Structures, processes and governance models are never neutral: they either foster responsibility or block it.
- Leaders shape culture through behaviour under pressure and how they handle responsibility, not through words.
- Effective culture work invests in the clarity of the leadership and decision architecture, not primarily in programmes.
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© WEKA Business Media AG, Zurich 2026. All rights reserved. This page deliberately shows an original abstract with bibliographic details instead of the full text; the article itself is available from the publisher.
Working on culture as a system
When the questions raised in the article become concrete in your organisation, the work on architecture begins.