Category Archives: Basic Business Concepts

The upside to entering post-corporate life is that your creative talents will finally be unleashed to their fullest extent. You will begin to see immediate results for every action, however small. If you rise to the challenge, you can experience … Continue reading →

I have written frequently about problem workplaces, but have not discussed the important fact that most of these started out as desirable places to work. In fact, almost all of the companies I worked for were, or had been at one time, a fantastic place to build a career.

From what I observed, some of the problem workplaces I encountered actually provided stimulating and rewarding work environments before their decline occurred and there were common patterns in almost every decline.

Even the best working environments can become unhealthy if the corporate culture sickens and dies after repeated attacks from within. If management does not realize what a treasure they have in their corporate culture, they may stand idly by while new executives uproot and destroy it.  Some executives may not even recognize the power of the
corporate culture, perhaps because they had little part in creating it.

The corporate culture is the informal agreement on how the company is being run.

Ask any sociologist what happens when you mess with the mores and folkways of a group. (cue the disaster music…)

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