Top 50 Company Culture Articles on Medium by Popularity

The 6Q Team
5 min readJul 3, 2018

As a team focussed on building positive company cultures, we’re naturally obsessed with reading other perspectives on the topic.

Our favourite blog platform is Medium, so we couldn’t resist running some tools and creating a list of the top 50 Medium posts that cover company culture, ranked by total social shares.

Have a favourite article in this list? Highlight it or leave a note — we’re keen for your feedback!

Top 50 articles by social popularity

Why Good People Become Bad Bosses — Your Company Culture Is Who You Hire, Fire, and Promote
(1840 shares, 2,370 words)

How 2,000+ random coffee dates changed our company culture
(1720 shares, 773 words)

Anatomy of a Workplace Jerk — Your Company Culture Is Who You Hire, Fire, and Promote
(1560 shares, 2,228 words)

Your Company Culture is Who You Hire, Fire, and Promote
(1530 shares, 2,678 words)

Company Culture’ Doesn’t Happen Inside an Office Building
(950 shares, 804 words)

Why company culture makes or breaks remote work — initial commit
(940 shares, 1,550 words)

Creating a Healthy Company Culture — Admios
(690 shares, 907 words)

What if you could see your Company Culture Quantified?
(650 shares, 1,046 words)

Company Culture — The Seed that Sows Success — Catena Media RnD
(470 shares, 1,126 words)

10 Tactical Ways to Build a Company Culture Your Employees Love
(460 shares, 2,910 words)

The very best company culture decks on the web — The Startup
(460 shares, 819 words)

Three Layers to Design Your Company Culture — Daniel Ospina
(340 shares, 1,161 words)

Five Aspects of a Great Company Culture — High Alpha
(330 shares, 1,147 words)

Company power dynamic matters more than company culture
(330 shares, 1,005 words)

How Leaders Can Build or Destroy Your Startup Company Culture
(320 shares, 821 words)

How to Grow Company Culture as a Startup — Peerfit
(260 shares, 1,505 words)

Treating Company Culture Like Business: 3 Goals for 2018
(220 shares, 906 words)

Build a company culture of responsibility and focus without traditional management hierarchy
(210 shares, 2,004 words)

7 Things I Learned About Company Culture from Working at a Rapid-Growth Startup
(210 shares, 1,344 words)

Why should company culture matter to you? — Nabila Farhat
(200 shares, 820 words)

How Leadership Can Affect Your Startup Company Culture
(200 shares, 835 words)

5 habits any employee can develop to scale company culture
(190 shares, 1,316 words)

Your company culture is broken. Fix it. — shareddone
(170 shares, 653 words)

5 Ways to Create Positive Company Culture in Tech — The Startup
(170 shares, 1,955 words)

7 things I learned about company culture from someone who left ours
(160 shares, 1,159 words)

Are your one-on-ones helping or hurting your company culture?
(160 shares, 617 words)

Company culture is exactly what you have left once you remove the fancy office
(160 shares, 694 words)

How To Build on Company Culture? — Susan J Hilger
(150 shares, 305 words)

What we learned about company culture by running a startup lab
(150 shares, 1,884 words)

What your company culture is doing for you? — Sting
(130 shares, 1,407 words)

How to keep company culture healthy when you’re growing 100% Y/Y
(130 shares, 856 words)

6 Attributes of a Future Proof Company Culture — Habits are Your Destiny
(130 shares, 1,842 words)

Company Culture: 4 Things You Can Learn From Richard Sheridan and Menlo Innovations to Promote and…
(120 shares, 1,615 words)

Lessons learned about shaping company culture at RealtimeBoard
(120 shares, 1,823 words)

Built, Not Bought: 25 Examples Of Great Company Culture
(120 shares, 3,794 words)

Design and Company Culture — Zalando Design
(120 shares, 942 words)

Why having real values is essential for a thriving company culture
(100 shares, 1,346 words)

Designing A Company Culture Of Meaning — Rob Peters
(90 shares, 1,171 words)

3 Ways to Improve Your Company Culture Today ~ A Chat with the Co-Founder of 15Five
(80 shares, 1,007 words)

These 5 factors are the indicators of healthy company culture
(70 shares, 1,754 words)

It’s tempting to think that, when you’re doing work you love and you’re working for yourself, you don’t need to worry about your working environment.

No Matter How Big (Or Small) Your Business Is: Company Culture Matters (70 shares, 2,039 words)

How Michael Litt adjusted company culture while keeping core values
(70 shares, 2,179 words)

Why Company Culture is an Integral Part of Successful Startups Today
(70 shares, 653 words)

Company culture: it’s in the little things — Beyond
(60 shares, 1,165 words)

Two sweet spots for when startups should implement company culture
(60 shares, 497 words)

I’m Too Old for “Company Culture” — Deborah Ng
(50 shares, 821 words)

If You Want a Successful Company Culture, Don’t Copy Someone Else’s
(50 shares, 1,067 words)

What do I look for in a company culture? — Zoé
(50 shares, 983 words)

Active Support: strengthening our company culture — Light Creative
(50 shares, 1,144 words)

Podcast: Taking Note of Company Culture with Jess Lee
(50 shares, 3,888 words)

Crunching the numbers

These 50 articles equal a whopping 69,335 words in total, or 1,387 words per article on average. According to Wikipedia, a novel is typically over 40,000 words.

There were a total of 16,990 social shares (to date), which works out to an average of 340 shares per article.

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The 6Q Team

We build a product which helps other teams understand and foster team culture and motivations. We ❤ positive company cultures.