Culture Is What You Do When Things Go Wrong

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every company I’ve worked at had values written down somewhere. Integrity. Innovation. Collaboration. Respect. They were on the website, in the onboarding deck, sometimes literally on the walls. And in most cases, they told you almost nothing about what it was actually like to work there.

Culture isn’t what you say you value. It’s what you do, especially when things go wrong. Ines Sombra puts it perfectly: “Culture is what happens when what we want to believe about ourselves is challenged. Culture is what we do when we get things wrong, when we witness a violation of trust, or when we stay silent when an inappropriate comment is said in our presence.”

Values on guy@secdev.uk

Culture Is What You Do When Things Go Wrong