14: Building Corporate Culture
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Dima and Slava discuss corporate culture, debate if it can be built, and, if so what are the challenges and the tools can help.
- Stanley Tucci Taste: My Life Through Food
- What it is "corporate culture"?
- The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture from HBR
- How come "Results" and "Caring" are the dominant culture styles in the study by HBR?
- Tools for shaping corporate culture
- Mission statements: meaningful instrument or culture charade
- Feedback loops are very important for driving the culture
- Beware of pitfalls of employee surveys
- Recognition is not the same as rewarding and arguably recognition is more important than rewards
- How to practice recognition regularly?
- Soft Skills Engineering podcast
- Navier-Stokes equations
- Double edged sword of driving change with performance or just metrics
- Challenges can be reframed as opprtunities
- Social events for building corporate cultures
"Informal meeting at 5pm. Agenda is in the attached document."
- Social events, though, can be a useful indicator to understand the culture
