Episode 5: Company Culture: How to Stop it Before it Spreads
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Culture is a good and important thing, particularly these days with the workforce spread out and stretched thin. It’s inauthentic culture that’s problematic - something that’s cooked up by company leadership that doesn’t survive contact with reality, or by an outside consultant who parachutes in and after a month’s time distills it into its purest powdered form. I describe my encounter with just such a consultant, or luftmensch: an unserious person seriously attempting to sell air. It would take me years to see and value the difference between a company culture created in perfect laboratory conditions vs. one that emerged organically and adapted to changing reality.
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