Culture embodies a set of rules and dynamics created between relationships, teams, and communities that ultimately become the practices and norms expected, accepted, and tolerated within the grouping. Strong cultures thrive on centering towards the core or center. Those that focus on extremes and the boundaries exhibit conflict and strife. Individuals choose to be a part of the dynamic and, in so doing, adopt and adapt to the fundamentals.
What happens when a few, often in positions of power and authority, begin to dictate their personal beliefs to the group. In time, it creates dissent, fragmentation, and ultimately separation.
Within teams and organizations, the outcome is separation and sometimes the formation of competition. What with communities and nations? Fragmentation occurs, and when tolerance no longer exists as a cultural norm, we can expect dissent and separation. For a few, it may be a change in just one rule. For others, it is fundamental.
