Some Company Culture Truths

There is no event in a vacuum. To understand what happens, look at the situation. What people do reflects the culture. Culture is established by its leaders. What people do is information about the leaders. Because the company’s culture determines productivity...

What is A Good Organizational or Company Culture?

  “Good” means good for the business and good for people. A good organizational or company culture is both. Many organizations emphasize the business side over the people side and as a result have an out-of-balance workplace. This is understandable; “If I didn’t...

What is Company or Organizational Culture?

  Your Corporation’s Culture is Its Personality. It is the company’s shared beliefs, values, and practices — the unique way your organization sees the world and acts. It is what employees do and what their actions mean to them. Just as our personality guides what...

Culture is “Personality Writ Large”

  In her widely translated book Patterns of Culture (Routledge, 1934), Ruth Fulton Benedict wrote, “A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action”. Each culture, she held, chooses from “the great arc...