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'The Culture Code' by Danny Coyle explores the themes of organizational culture by studying successful teams across various industries. It relates these themes to contemporary issues and debates by highlighting how effective group cultures can lead to success or failure. For instance, the book discusses the case of the Minuteman missileers, where a lack of effective culture led to serious failures. This example can be related to contemporary debates about the importance of organizational culture in maintaining discipline, efficiency, and success in any industry.
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To understand what makes cultures tick, it's important to see why cultures fail. The Minuteman missileers are nuclear missile launch officers who handle weapons that are twenty times more powerful than Hiroshima. In recent years, however, they have seen a high rate of failure and accidents including missiles lying unattended on a runway for hours. The Air Force treated this as a disciplinary problem and cracked down. Yet, the failures kept happening.
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