Quotes About Culture

These companies have realized that when you get into a real work environment, the truth comes out.

Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.

You need an environment where everyone feels safe enough to be honest when things get tough. You need to know how far you can push someone. You need to know what people really mean when they say something. So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

Artificial culture is paint. Real culture is patina.

Start by empowering everyone to make decisions on their own. If the company is full of people whom nobody trusts to make decisions without layers of managerial review, then the company is full of the wrong people.

It's much likelier to breed a culture of overwork if managers and owners are constantly putting in He-Man hours.

They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.

Ata ishin gjithmonë shqiptarë. Ti e di se çfarë do të thotë. Disa katolikë, disa ortodoksë. Dhe disa, në kohë, ishin myslimanë. Por feja e parë e shqiptarëve, siç thonë ata, është Shqipëria

Lufta nuk ka shumë rëndësi për një njeri. Një shqiptar se ka fare problem. Pyesni grekët.

Before you can implement radical change, you have to let go of the things that will destine your attempts for failure, and make letting go a vital part of your culture

Culture is defined as the shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices of an organization; every group of people has a culture.

When a leader fails to provide the proper culture, one will still exist; it can best be described as one of every man for himself, each acting in his own best interests and to heck with the interests of the company.

Millner is just as excited about the culture of continuous improvement that is at the core of Cabela's. "Adaptation is critical. You've got to adapt. No matter how successful you are, the minute you can't do what you've done, you've got to let it go. If you don't continuously improve, you die.

Poorly led teams "systematically underreported" their mistakes. In layman's terms, they covered up their mistakes.

There are two ways to run a big company: by rules or by values,

When you hire someone with a strong work ethic, who shares your values and fits your culture, you don't need a lot of rules or bureaucracy," he says. "All the rules you find inside most companies are there for the two percent of all people who don't do the right thing, and in the process of having rules for them they adversely affect the other ninety-eight percent of all people who don't need rules. It's a lot easier to not hire those two percent.

The image of the "self-destructive artist" is a culturally implanted kill switch. Ignore it. Imagination is a weapon; you have been indoctrinated with these images so that if you discover the weapon, you will use it on yourself and save them the trouble.

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People in South Philly don't spend a lot of time talking about French royalty. Still, I don't want to look like an idiot, so I shovel on more lies.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

Rap music is the newspaper of black people.

The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.