Its a Small World After All... or is it?

I am thinking about the irony of people standing in line waiting to ride the "Its a Small World" ride at Disney. (You know the one we have all been on and made the mistake of doing it in the morning so the annoying song stays in our heads all day!) The peson runs into a friend while snaking the lines and thinks "wow!" what a small world when they are going on a ride that says there is no irony in runing into a friend in Disney standing in line to ride Its a Small World.

Confused? Good, that was the point. It may be able to be a small world with technology and mental advances. In fact, the amount of information available on the planet doubles every 1150 days! But yet, we do not share and thus we are still woefully in a very, very large world.

For awhile, we thought the secret would be to work with Fortune 50 clients. After all, they had to have it all figured out to become a $65B company, right? What we discovered over time is that the problems that plague the $65M company are the same as the ones that plague the $65B company. How can this be? How can you grow your revenues to a point where you are doing such astronomical amounts, yet lack the ability to grow emotionally and intellectually?

Not saying we have the answer, just pointing out that if you are one of those smaller firms thinking the grass is greener in the larger ones - wake up! The principles of corprate culture are the same no matter the size of the company. Ultimately, your beliefs determine your values and your values determine your attitudes which determine your feelings which determine your behaviors which then feed your beliefs. Its a cycle - one that continues to play out every single day in every single company.

Hopefully, through this blog, you have found some advice on how to handle your corporate culture. Remember, it is a living, breathing part of your company. Period. Anyone who does not beleive that needs to go. Anyone who does not beleive that will go - becasue eventually the company will!