A study by the Boston Research Group into governance, culture and leadership asked employees from all hierarchical levels about their company’s culture. Some saw their employer’s culture as being top-down, but with skilled leadership, many rules and a mixture of carrots and sticks – ‘the informed acquiescence approach’. Others described their company’s culture as being based on command-and-control, top-down management or leadership-by-coercion – the ‘blind obedience approach’. Still others, reported a culture where employees were guided by a set of core principles and values that inspired them to align their behaviour with their firm’s mission – ‘the selfgovernance approach’. Into which of these three categories would you place your own organization’s culture?