{"id":220,"date":"2010-03-21T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nusum.wordpress.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:02:28","slug":"cultural-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/2010\/03\/21\/cultural-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if !mso]&gt; &lt;!  v\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} p\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} v\\:textbox {display:none;} --> <!--[endif]--><!--[if !ppt]--><!-- .O \t{font-size:149%;} --><!-- .sld \t{left:0px !important; \twidth:6.0in !important; \theight:4.5in !important; \tfont-size:103% !important;} --><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>I was recently asked to create an executive briefing that included a high level assessment of the risks associated with adopting social media in the Government. I segmented the risks by three areas; Policy, Legal and Cultural.\u00a0 The cultural risks are what interest me at the moment and they relate to the internal culture of the organization. I found myself writing and rewriting these words:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>Conflict occurs between hierarchical and network management philosophies when power based on information control is replaced by power based on reputation.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>To complete the risk equation, I believe the likelihood and impact of this occurring depends on the degree to which key individuals try and maintain power structures based on information control.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>I am wondering if the statement captures the essence of the risk ?<\/div>\n<div>Can the risk of conflict in this situation be mitigated \u2014 perhaps it is inevitable, even necessary?<\/div>\n<div>Thoughts?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked to create an executive briefing that included a high level assessment of the risks associated with adopting social media in the Government. I segmented the risks by three areas; Policy, Legal and Cultural.\u00a0 The cultural risks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/2010\/03\/21\/cultural-risk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-culture","category-gov-2-0","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}