I've worked for two companies who went public (the dream, right?) after becoming fairly successful and then were driven into the ground and sold off in pieces d

I've worked for two companies who went public (the dream, right?) after becoming fairly successful and then were driven into the ground and sold off in pieces due to being horribly mismanaged by dispassionate, replacement management (should've sold sooner). I look back over the ~15 years of those happenings and I'm not sure that, in the long run, any valuation happens in the corporate culture. It all seems to be a game of Monopoly, set about by players with enough money to buy their way in, or lucky enough to leverage their way in on very rare occasions. I can't tell you what will work for you, but I've decided for me that real change happens in small sections in myself and in people. It looks small and incremental, and the world seems large but sometimes that's enough... well, it is for me and that's one of the changes I've made to me... most of the time. It doesn't seem to be working as well, lately with all of the chaos in the world. I'm working on it, though =)