There was a place called NotTooFarAway. In NotTooFarAway, lived two groups of people. One group lived in the city and the other group lived on the beach. A group from a nearby place called, CuriousEyes looked at the above two groups and wondered: Are the beach group more happy than the city group? If the…
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What is the default culture?
According to sociologists, culture consists of the values, beliefs, systems of language, communication, and practices that people share in common and that can be used to define them as a collective. There is a culture within families, places, companies, societies etc. Everything cannot be covered in a “culture” document or a manual. There will be…
Culture eats strategy for lunch
A speaker at the 2010 BRITE Conference at the Columbia Business School said something profound: culture eats strategy for lunch. The same theme echoed at this year’s BRITE Conference. Speakers from ad agencies, globally known brands and academics talked about the importance of culture in their talks. Several speakers cited Zappos’s culture when giving an…