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Originally Posted by wptw
Evon, I've been through it too. It just takes time. In my experience it required 5 years, long enough to turn over all the original undergrad players with their hardwired mindsets and preconceptions.
Keep doing the right things and be patient. The pace of culture change is glacial. What I noticed in my fraternity and later in my companies is that culture change doesn't happen by changing people's minds. It happens by changing the people entirely.
I call this process "scrabbling", like in Scrabble when you have lousy letters and can't make a word, so you lose a turn, dump your letters, and get 7 new ones.
Look on the bright side, in college the scrabbling process only takes 4 years. In a corporation it can take much much longer.
Hang in there. I frankly wouldn't worry too much about "horning in" - in fact I'd encourage it, to show that you're there to stay. Just stick to the high road and focus on recruiting the best people.
wptw
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thanks for the advice, i myself feel in 1-2 years we will be known and not to be messed with lol.