Following a post by my friend Gregory Culpin on Knowledge Heroes, I’m sharing this interesting text with you.
“Phil, it’s not as simple as you think. Organizations are living, breathing organisms. They are like people – with their own histories, dreams, desires, jealousies, traditions and habits. And they are made up of people, no two of whom are alike, while at the same time they share certain beliefs, values and behaviours. That all wraps up into what we call our “corporate culture,” and it’s worth more to us than a thousand desktop computers or a million mission statements. It’s what makes us a cohesive whole, a team-based organization that is not tripping over itself every second of every day.”
The original post linked to the full article on pmctraining.com. Both the blog and that link have long since gone the way of the 2009 web — the excerpt above is preserved via the Internet Archive.
He runs Wellmade, a product engineering studio, and still writes the code. Twenty years of building products for companies that wanted the thinking and the building done by the same person.