Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
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Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
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Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#2I've always believed company culture comes down to 1 thing: peoples' belief about how awesome their life is going to be next month... In other words, optimism and stuff to look forward to. Whether that's fabulous wealth, fun social time with coworkers, etc-- you have to have faith that things will be awesome in the future or you start looking.
Doesn't matter how many scavenger hunts or catered lunches you have.
Of course, you can get "awesome inflation". Day 1 at Google, maybe you're blown away by the catered lunches and at-desk free pedicures. A year later, maybe not.
Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#3I've always believed company culture comes down to 1 thing: peoples' belief about how awesome their life is going to be next month... In other words, optimism and stuff to look forward to. Whether that's fabulous wealth, fun social time with coworkers, etc-- you have to have faith that things will be awesome in the future or you start looking. Doesn't matter how many scavenger hunts or catered lunches you have. Of co…
I don't think it's that binary. There are definitely times where I've been on teams where I knew things were looking grim, but where I felt a bond with my everyone, and it was a fellowship that made us dig in to give our best effort. That can be very sustaining (moreso if you feel good about your future team-finding skills, I suppose).
Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#4Great article Dan. Culture is such an intangible unquantifiable thing that many people overlook. While I do agree on the 4 points you mentioned I believe that alot of company culture bleeds out of the personality of the CEO. They usually set the precedent and tone especially in a small startup.
Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#5I think company culture is what you make of it, especially in a startup. You have the ability to help shape the workplace you're in and if you don't contribute, don't complain.
For me, I want to enjoy coming to work because of two reasons: (1) Building a product that connects with me and solves a real problem (2) I enjoy working with the people I'm with. It's the sense of camaraderie you build. All that other stuff contributes to that.
Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#6Great article Dan. Culture is such an intangible unquantifiable thing that many people overlook. While I do agree on the 4 points you mentioned I believe that alot of company culture bleeds out of the personality of the CEO. They usually set the precedent and tone especially in a small startup.
In Dan's case, that's a very good thing.
Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#7Side note: I think "platitude" implies "meaningless."
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Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#9Side note: I think "platitude" implies "meaningless."
"Meaningless platitude" has lost all of its currency.
;) for the humor impaired.
Re: Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
#10Great article Dan. Culture is such an intangible unquantifiable thing that many people overlook. While I do agree on the 4 points you mentioned I believe that alot of company culture bleeds out of the personality of the CEO. They usually set the precedent and tone especially in a small startup.
Culture is such an intangible unquantifiable thing that many people overlook.
I think it's pretty obvious once you start to look for it.