📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava discuss corporate culture, debate if it can be built, and, if so what are the challenges and the tools can help. Stanley Tucci Taste: My Life Through Food What it is "corporate culture"? The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture from HBR How come "Results" and "Caring" are the dominant culture styles in the study by HBR? Tools for shaping corporate culture Mission statements: meaningful instrument or culture charade Feedback loops are very important for driving the culture Beware of pitfalls of employee surveys Recognition is not the same as rewarding and arguably recognition is more important than rewards How to practice recognition regularly? Soft Skills Engineering podcast Navier-Stokes equations Double edged sword of driving change with performance or just metrics Challenges can be reframed as opprtunities Social events for building corporate cultures "Informal meeting at 5pm. Agenda is in the attached document." Social events, though, can be a useful indicator to understand the culture