Champions eat culture for breakfast

An organisation is no different from a watch that has several parts coming together to make a watch

Disclaimer: These are not my current employer’s opinions, it’s purely mine. This has nothing to do with my current employer’s culture and organisation, it’s purely an effort to give back to our business community. The examples provided here are mostly applicable to an ISV (independent software vendor).

YOU: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yet another article on company culture.

ME: Not really, read on.

We have been oversold the “cultural tonic” without much guidelines and prescription on how to implement it. In my not-so-humble opinion, a company’s culture splits into several types (I call them the 4 pillars of an organisation’s culture):

1. Internal social culture

2. Internal work culture

3. External social culture

4. External work culture

A lot of companies focus on number 1 aka Internal social culture by introducing free massages, vending machines full of kombucha, beer on tap, free breakfasts & lunches, participations in charitable causes and tend to think they got it right. Whilst introductions of these amenities are great from an employee perspective, for the hungry (whether a leader or an individual contributor like me) amongst us who want to deliver real results and outcomes, focusing on the other 3 types of…