14: Building Corporate Culture

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zIGMc1NLHSg 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" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taste-Sunday-Bestseller-Stanley-Tucci/dp/0241501008) * What it is "corporate culture"? * The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture (https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-leaders-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 (https://softskills.audio/) * Navier-Stokes equations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations) * Double edged sword of driving change with performance or just metrics * Challenges can be reframed as opportunities * 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