I truly hate the idea of imposing inorganic "company cultures" on people, which usually just means making employees pretend to adhere to some arbitrary set of "values" and holding weird rituals around them inside the company. (2)
(2) It's no different than the cuius regio, eius religio (“whose realm, his religion) of the Holy Roman Empire, in which different princes or rulers had the right to enforce their preferred religious beliefs on the population. It's now the supreme right of Founders. (3)
(3) A company “culture” is the set of things that a society (or people within a company) considers sacred. Culture, from the word 'cultus', can't really be understood apart from religion. In my opinion, engineering a culture is engineering a religion. Silicon Valley has one. (4)
(4) Cut it out.
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