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As a business owner, I have the authority to define what the culture of my company is. I get to print up manuals and make people sign them and everything.

• guhidalg 4y ago
  Manuals are rulesets, you can evaluate if they’re being followed or not. How do you do that for culture?
  • etchalon 4y ago
    What do you believe the difference is in evaluating whether someone is following the rule of "Be kind" and whether someone is contributing to a culture of kindness?
    • guhidalg 4y ago
      I think both are equally ambiguous, and I don't think a "Be kind" clause in a contract would hold up in court.
      • etchalon 4y ago
        Are you under the impression that, every time someone is fired for violating a rule in an employee manual, lawyers get involved?
• drewbug01 4y ago
  It’s not possible to define what your company’s culture “is”. Culture is an emergent thing, that arises in the innumerable interactions between and among people. At best, you can hope to influence it. But you can never control it.