Does your startup company culture really
matter? It sure mattered to Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, as we noted
last week, who describes in an article
in Inc, the battles he waged with investors who dismissed his efforts
to cultivate a supportive, worker-friendly environment at the company.
The importance of preserving that company culture, Hsieh suggests, led
in part to his decision to sell his company to Amazon.
Company Culture: A "Meaningless Platitude"?
A startup has to have a lot of things in place: a strong team, a good product, and a market interested in it. Is the company culture another thing that startups need to have situated in order to succeed? Or is it, as Dan Shapiro writes in a provocatively titled post "a meaningless platitude"?
To read the full, original article click on this link: Should Startups Worry about Their Company Culture?
Author: Audrey Watters
