Most organisations have policies. Far fewer have made them work.

Not because the policies were badly written, but because writing policy is only the beginning of a much longer process. The document on the intranet is not the destination. It is a starting point — the organisation's first attempt to make its expectations legible. Whether those expectations translate into consistent behaviour, and whether that behaviour eventually becomes the unremarkable, self-sustaining way things are done here, depends on a series of deliberate choices that most organisations under-invest in, or skip altogether.

This piece is about those choices. About what good policy actually looks like, how it becomes practice, and how practice (when conditions are right) eventually becomes culture.