Why some countries have developed and others are not, why some

countries are unstable and others are not, why people in some
countries don’t care about their country but in others people do,
why? because of the culture, culture is a collective attribute of a
group, how they react, what they eat, what they perceive as good
or bad, what they think is normal or not normal.

Culture plays a vital role in shaping the society and the country. A
good culture makes it easy and natural to progress, a collective
progressive behaviour is a boon to a country. It seems like
progress is happening automatically.

What shapes culture

How culture affects citizens, citizens reflect the culture, you can
easily identify a culture by examining the behaviour and acts of
local people in a country, observe how they react to a negative
stimulus and how they react to a dishonest/unfair opportunity,
put them in a situation and see how they react. It’s not that this
behaviour is their individual responsibility, the culture plays an
important role, for most of the people the behaviour is just built
automatically through experiences and events they experienced
and they don’t give a serious thought on how different experiences
and events shape their behaviour.

Political leadership
In a country, the political landscape changes with time, and people
with diverse beliefs and motivations hold power to motivate and
alter the thinking of a majority of people in the country, this belief
and motivation of leaders affect the culture for the good or for the
bad. People learn new habits, certain odd behaviour becomes new
normal and definition of bizarre changes. These leadership
changes over time shape the culture, a good leadership induce and
motivate everybody around them to attain good habits and deliver
their best with honesty and affects the behaviour of almost
everyone in the country. The vice versa of it is also true, a bad
leadership, which has selfish motivation affect the culture badly
and it encourages everyone to act selfish and selfishness creates a
bad culture, in such culture self-interest defines the normal
behaviour and not the social values.

Big events
big events like war, political movements change the culture and
induce new habits in people. Our habits change when we have to
survive in an extraordinary situation, we, human adapt to it
quickly to survive. Like in a place where there is a prolonged war,
people become extremely anxious and children become violent
and people stop caring much about ethical values. If some country
is going through economic crises and people don’t have much
money to feed their children, people develop a bit of dis honesty to
save and earn more money and that become new normal. The bad
thing about these events is that they happen and culture change
but once this event is over, the culture change persist. The
sequence of such events shapes the culture.

How culture affects corporate

productivity
In corporations, the cultural traits like hard work, fair
competition, free speech, open feedback and mutual respect affect
overall corporate’s productivity and longevity. The culture where
employees can speak freely about issues and opportunity helps to
shape the corporate culture. In such an environment new hires
who are mediocre employees of other companies become stars in
the new culture, they probably have never gotten a chance to
perform fairly in earlier organisation’s ill cultured environment
but here they can thrive.

A culture boost not only productivity but creativity also, employees

who know they can talk about new opportunity and would not be
discouraged, usually come up with innovative ideas. Culture also
boost customer trust, a satisfied, happy and respected employee
treat customers well and do his best to make them happy, a happy
mind is best suited to spread happiness.

A lot can be changed and achieved with culture, we as leaders

must understand that in addition to our current responsibilities to
deliver we must think of long term and take right steps and put
forth right examples which shape culture in the right way.