It has become  commonplace in the last 20 years to reference organizational culture as an  inhibitor or enabler of significant organizational initiatives. While everyone talks  about organizational culture, few people really understand it and even fewer  know how to use culture to their advantage or how to change it. Organizational  culture is the collection of relatively uniform and enduring beliefs, values,  customs, traditions, and practices shared by an organization’s  members and transmitted from one generation of employees to another.  The  expectations derived from organizational culture create norms of acceptable  behavior and ways of surviving, fitting in, and doing things in the  organization—just as our personalities influence our own expectations and  actions.