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Culture as a Growth Driver
- rhapsodic 8y agoIt's dismaying to see no black people among the employees in the picture.
- patentatt 8y agoWhy is this getting downvoted? I don’t interpret OP’s comment as lambasting the company itself, but something more general.
- frockington 8y agoBecause its not relevant to the article at all. The article is about creating a company culture that will increase business resiliency, not how many checkmarks you can get on your diversity sheet
- threatofrain 8y agoThere's some relevance since the discussion is lead by "culture". It shouldn't matter. But does it?
- i1856511 8y agoDiversity is absolutely relevant to the topic of culture. The composition of the company photo struck me too.
- xevb3k 8y ago“Not a cultural fit” is an excuse used to cover a multitude of sins. It’s obviously not true is all cases, but it can be used as. A proxy for racism and/or filtering out people with differing political or religious beliefs. It would be nice if the article had dwelt briefly on what “culture” actually means rather than leaving it as an ill defined concept (that can be manipulated to less desirable ends).
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- dsfyu404ed 8y agoBecause we're all sick of using skin color and whether or not you have a dick as the two primary metrics for diversity. I'm not saying the picture isn't lacking racial diversity, just we're sick of people harping on about it.
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- hypothete 8y agoThis article's thesis is "we improved our business by being deliberate about culture", but unless I'm missing something it doesn't say how they were deliberate at all. I feel like if you're going to make an assertion like that, you should say how you accomplished your goals.
- ibdf 8y agoCongratulations on growing your business. Though I enjoyed the article, I wish you had gone more into what's the culture you are building? What makes good culture? What were some of your goals that have been achieved? Or what were some of the ideas that worked and some that didn't. What are your values? how do you empower your employees?
- farest 8y agoThe relationship between commerce and actual culture is always disparate. When companies speak of culture, they are speaking of business culture, which is inherently non-culture. That being said, they are most likely either just connecting words for the hype of it or they are referring to morally questionable or discriminatory hiring practices.