Why Business Culture Is Important
Companies and organizations have unique cultures. A team that you are part of can have a culture very different from the cultural goals expressed by the most senior levels of the company or organization. Cultures can also vary among different teams in the
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Why Business Culture Is Important Companies and organizations have unique cultures. A team that you are part of can have a culture very different from the cultural goals expressed by the most senior levels of the company or organization. Cultures can also vary among different teams in the same organization. You developed a set of personal values and talents over your professional and personal life. Some of these values include your sense of accountability, ambitiousness, compassion, discipline, fairness, trustworthiness, logical thought process, entrepreneurial nature, adaptivity, and flexibility (just to name a few). You might have developed talents as a strategic thinker, shown analytical tendencies and the ability to put situations into context, and developed consistency and self-assurance in your approach. If the culture within your organization is misaligned with your values, talents, and what motivates you, then your job satisfaction and career aspirations can be severely impacted. In this chapter, we’ll describe the cultures that are typically present. We’ll also explore the role of leadership in maintaining or driving cultural change and challenges senior leadership can face when they try to drive change. Finally, we’ll look at aligning your values, standards, and passions to succeed within the cultures that are present and point out some important warning signs when there is misalignment. © Robert Stackowiak 2019 R. Stackowiak, Remaining Relevant in Your Tech Career, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3703-8_2
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Why Business Culture Is Important
This chapter is segmented into the following major topics: •
Business culture types
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Leadership behavior
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Cultural change and growth mindsets
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Picking the right business culture
During my career, I worked for several companies and organizations, some for more than half a dozen years. During that time, I saw some of them undergo significant cultural change. When I decided to leave a company, the company I left was sometimes very different from the one that I joined initially. You should always be on the alert for cultural changes. Such changes will impact how you view your company or organization and your view of its future. As the world you work in changes around you, such changes can also impact your opportunities for career growth and success.
Business Culture Types There are many views on how to classify the cultures present in businesses. In technology-oriented companies, the businesses are sometimes described as “start-up,” “newly public,” “mature,” or “legacy.” In government, the departments and agencies are sometimes described by their focus on research, setting policies, or providing operations and control of necessary services. Research facilities and start-ups must be highly innovative since their mission is to solve previously unsolved problems and focus on deploying these solutions and bringing them to market. Sometimes, gaining significant early market and mind share through rapid incremental development is the primary
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