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1. “Traits of Companies That Attract Intrapreneurs: 1. Their executives are comfortable taking calculated risks and encouraging creativity. 2. Their compensation plan incentivizes innovation and outstanding performers. 3. Their executives play offense (improve) instead of just playing defense (cover their asses). 4. Their executives elevate potential stars rather than hold them back. 5. Their executives actively seek out ideas from all layers of the organization. 6. Their executives actively look for young talent to keep the company vibrant and innovative.”
Patrick Bet-David
Intrapreneurs, Traits, Company Culture, Innovation, Leadership
8. “Tolerance for failure is a very specific part of the excellent company culture—and that lesson comes directly from the top. Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organization won’t learn. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. In Search of Excellence” Michael Gerber Failure Tolerance, Company Culture, Organizational Learning, Failure, Culture, Learning
9. “We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.” Mark Zuckerberg Company Culture, Openness, Collaboration, Business, Leadership, Transparency
11. “Some of the best ideas throughout the company’s evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it’s an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.” Mark Zuckerberg Ideas, Innovation, Teamwork, Company Culture, Business, Creativity
12. “I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.” Mark Zuckerberg Entrepreneurship, Business, Vision, Change, Company culture, Success
13. “My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.” Mark Zuckerberg Entrepreneurship, Vision, Change, Company culture, Impact, Business
17. “If you’re involved in building and managing a company, we’re asking you to think less in terms of being a brilliant product visionary or seeking the personality characteristics of charismatic leadership, and to think more in terms of being an organizational visionary and building the characteristics of a visionary company.” Jim Collins Business, Leadership, Vision, Strategy, Company Culture
24. “It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.” Steve Jobs Results, Innovation, Company Culture, Business Values, Impact
28. “A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.” Steve Jobs Business Strategy, Customer Focus, Growth, Product Development, Company Culture
Company Culture Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “Traits of Companies That Attract Intrapreneurs: 1. Their executives are comfortable taking calculated risks and encouraging creativity. 2. Their compensation plan incentivizes innovation and outstanding performers. 3. Their executives play offense (improve) instead of just playing defense (cover their asses). 4. Their executives elevate potential stars rather than hold them back. 5. Their executives actively seek out ideas from all layers of the organization. 6. Their executives actively look for young talent to keep the company vibrant and innovative.”
Patrick Bet-David Intrapreneurs, Traits, Company Culture, Innovation, Leadership
8. “Tolerance for failure is a very specific part of the excellent company culture—and that lesson comes directly from the top. Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organization won’t learn. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. In Search of Excellence”
Michael Gerber Failure Tolerance, Company Culture, Organizational Learning, Failure, Culture, Learning
9. “We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.”
Mark Zuckerberg Company Culture, Openness, Collaboration, Business, Leadership, Transparency
11. “Some of the best ideas throughout the company’s evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it’s an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.”
Mark Zuckerberg Ideas, Innovation, Teamwork, Company Culture, Business, Creativity
12. “I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.”
Mark Zuckerberg Entrepreneurship, Business, Vision, Change, Company culture, Success
13. “My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.”
Mark Zuckerberg Entrepreneurship, Vision, Change, Company culture, Impact, Business
17. “If you’re involved in building and managing a company, we’re asking you to think less in terms of being a brilliant product visionary or seeking the personality characteristics of charismatic leadership, and to think more in terms of being an organizational visionary and building the characteristics of a visionary company.”
Jim Collins Business, Leadership, Vision, Strategy, Company Culture
24. “It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.”
Steve Jobs Results, Innovation, Company Culture, Business Values, Impact
28. “A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
Steve Jobs Business Strategy, Customer Focus, Growth, Product Development, Company Culture
