This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office
Kursat Ozenc is a product designer who he teaches at Stanford university, He teaches on the subject that we can all learn from which is the idea that culture can be designed. The specific tool he uses to design culture is the creation of workplace rituals.
Kursat's first book is here and the second, on virtual meetings is here.
The reading list for Kursat's course is here
Kursat’s book includes the suggestions that: ‘The rituals in our life show what we care about’. Critically then creating rituals demonstrate what our culture values.
Kursat gives five use cases for rituals:
If you like this episode you'll also like the episode that accompanies it - which goes into depth about specific rituals that companies have used. Listen to that episode here.