Managing Company Culture

Thoughts about the water we swim in

David Powers
Nov 4 · 22 min read
Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

Culture (to borrow an excellent phrase) is the water we swim in, the multiple interlocking systems, rituals, and values that bind a particular group together. Explicit systems may get the bulk of the work done, but culture suffuses the whole, giving it a coherence that helps it feel natural and fluid.

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David Powers has been a software engineer, business owner, consultant, and a Pilates instructor, but mostly he’s tried to help people build things together.

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