Free · 7 minutes · anonymous · individual or team
Culture Signal Scan
A signal, not a diagnosis — and we tell you exactly what it can’t see.
Four lenses on your organisation, in seven minutes:
- Culture type — the dominant archetype (Family, Pioneer, Arena, or Machine).
- Strategy–culture gap — whether your culture rewards what your strategy needs.
- Say–Do gap— the distance between what’s espoused and what’s tolerated. The uncomfortable number.
- Signal coherence (unlocks at 8 responses) — where the top and the front line describe two different companies. This is usually the most uncomfortable lens, which is why it requires more than one voice.
The four archetypes you might be.
Every organisation makes the same two trade-offs: flexibility versus control, internal focus versus external focus. The four quadrants are not personality types — they are the cultural shape those trade-offs produce.
We name them in plain language. The scan reads which one your organisation has actually become, and whether that matches the one the strategy needs.
Competing Values Framework — four culture archetypes.
Flexibility & discretion
Loyalty and relationships are the currency. People stay because it feels like home.
Bold ideas and autonomy. The place moves fast and reinvents itself.
Process, predictability, control. Dependable delivery; slow to adapt.
Performance is the identity. Targets are sacred, scoreboards are clear.
Stability & control