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Culture is not a mysterious force. It is the emergent result of all the shared mental models — identity, strategy, process, values, risk, authority, time — operating simultaneously in the organization. When you change the schemas, you change the culture. When you try to change the culture without changing the schemas, nothing happens.
Culture operates like organizational infrastructure — the invisible systems (plumbing, wiring, foundations) that determine how the building actually functions. Like physical infrastructure, culture is invisible when working correctly, catastrophically visible when it fails, expensive to retrofit, and impossible to bolt on after the structure is built. Organizations that treat culture as decoration (something to display) rather than infrastructure (something to engineer) consistently underinvest in it — and pay the costs in coordination failures, talent attrition, and strategic misalignment.