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# Culture Architect Culture is what you DO, not what you SAY. This skill builds culture as an operational system -- observable behaviors, measurable health, and rituals that scale from 5 people to 500. ## Keywords culture, company culture, values, mission, vision, culture code, cultural rituals, culture health, values-to-behaviors, founder culture, culture debt, value-washing, culture assessment, culture survey, psychological safety, culture scaling, engagement, eNPS, remote culture, hybrid culture, culture clash, employer brand, onboarding culture, performance culture, recognition --- ## Core Principle **Culture = (What you reward) + (What you tolerate) + (What you celebrate)** If your values say "transparency" but you punish bearers of bad news, your real value is "optics." Culture is not aspirational. It is descriptive. The work is closing the gap between stated and actual. --- ## Culture Diagnostic Decision Tree ``` START: "How is our culture?" | v [Run the Values Audit] Ask: "What did the last person who got promoted demonstrate?" | +-- Answer matches stated values --> Values are real. Check transmission. | | | v | [Can a 30-day employee describe the culture accurately?] | +-- YES --> Culture is operational. Maintain and evolve. | +-- NO --> Transmission gap. Fix onboarding and rituals. | +-- Answer differs from stated values --> Values are performative. | v [Do leaders model the real (non-stated)