- the best outcome is 'security mindfulness' - "an attitude into which is woven preoccupation with failure, reluctance to simplify interpretations, sensitivity to operations, commitment to resilience and deference to expertise"
- this is not achieved through punishments and compliance
- *at best*, hygiene factors just don't piss people off
- it is inefficient to try to fit the human to the task
- unless your want your humans to only be able to do the task
- is the day-to-day task you want people to be doing...memorisation?
- the physical and social context in which the humans will be acting has some importance: the paper notes a great example, which is: putting in a password on your laptop in your air-conditioned office is quite different to trying to type it when it's -3 and you're on your phone
- security issues are people issues and people are so part of a social system, a system both corporate and national, that it's impossible to take them out and impossible to take an action that's not within that context
- so all change professionals must understand their context
- it's handy if your context comes with a high security mindset
- ah, and what if your leaders bring in people with a low security mindset...?
- Schein (2004) argues that there are three levels of organisational culture, each of which is evident to an outside observer:
- artefacts and behaviours
- espoused values
- underlying assumptions
- Schein (1996) argues separately that there are eight 'anchors' in a corporate culture:
- autonomy and independence
- security and stability
- technical-functional competence
- general managerial competence
- entrepreneurial creativity
- service or dedication to a cause
- pure challenge
- lifestyle
- Furnham (2005) says that organisational change is rarely successful
- Haidt (2012) argues that there are 6 moral dimensions:
- care/harm
- fairness/cheating
- liberty/oppression
- loyalty/betrayal
- authority/subversion
- sanctity/degradation
- people won't feel strongly about all of these, but knowing which people feel strongly about will help craft messages that reach them
- I wonder which of these moral dimensions most security people align most strongly to?