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Company Culture Is the Last 50 Days
Because your culture is how your company makes decisions when you’re not there. It’s the set of assumptions your employees use to resolve the problems they face every day. It’s how they behave when no one is looking. If you don’t methodically set your culture, then two-thirds of it will end up being accidental, and the rest will be a mistake.
Ben Horowitz • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
"Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Ed Schein: “Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of culture as a concept is that it points us to phenomena that are below the surface, that are powerful in their impact but invisible and to a considerable degree unconscious. In that sense, culture is to a group what personality or character is to an in
... See moreBen Thompson • The Curse of Culture
Peter Drucker famously remarked that ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’. So what exactly is the culture of a company, a community or a society? Culture is the expression of a group's level of consciousness; their collective clarity of understanding. And the thoughts, words, actions and artefacts that make sense from that level of understanding.
Jamie Smart • Results: Think Less. Achieve More
Jason Fried on company culture:
"You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying to understand the true nature of an experience, place, or thing and rolling with the nature.
Any time you go against the true nature of something, you're just battling unnecessarily.
So yeah, figure it ou
... See moreCulture beats strategy—so much that culture is strategy.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
Companies must use growth to advance culture as opposed to worrying about growth affecting the maintenance of the culture