The Best Articles in Company Culture
The most useful articles in Company Culture from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Company Culture Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Company Culture by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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The best way to apologize (according to science)
Explore what to do— and not to do— in order to deliver an authentic apology and make amends in a variety of situations.--Over the years, people have come up ...
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How to Be a Mentor: 4 Ways to Change Someone’s Life
Discover what a mentor does, why different types of mentors exist, why mentoring is important, and four ways to be a transformative mentor yourself.
«mentors have three things in common. They motivate, inspire, and support.»
How to Become a Better Listener
Sharpen these seven skills.
«REPEAT PEOPLE’S LAST FEW WORDS BACK TO THEM. If you remember nothing else, remember this simple practice that does so much. It makes the other person feel listened to, keeps you on track during the conversation, and provides a pause for both of you to gather thoughts or recover from an emotional reaction»
How To Create A Business Rhythm For Better Collaboration
Companies certainly hold lots of meetings. However, having more meetings does not necessarily equal more collaboration and better teamwork. Also, more meetings does not automatically ensure better…
«Finally, most teams at P4Q hold quick daily meetings to see how they are performing against set goals (similar to stand-up meetings in Agile, for example).»
How to Stay Motivated When You’re (Still) Stuck at Home
You’re tired, mad, and lonely. So, what can you do about it?
How to Evaluate a Company’s Culture During a Remote Hiring Process
There’s plenty you can learn without ever stepping foot in an office.
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The Abilene paradox: When not rocking the boat may sink the boat
The Abilene paradox describes the unfortunately common situation where a group of people agree to an idea, despite most of them not fully believing that it is the best decision.
«The power of social conformity can persuade us to agree to the perceived general consensus and can lead to extremely poor group decisions.»
How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People
Anna Binder joined Asana back in 2016 as its first HR executive. She shares her advice from helping weave the cultural fabric, from getting comfortable with feedback to maintaining a healthy exec…
Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic
Collective emotion, when a group of people shares an emotion, is often stronger than a single individual feeling that same emotion alone. So, how can leaders manage emotions, particularly negative…
Run efficient meetings that don’t suck
Shared by 153, including Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Which Meetings Should You Kill?
Your company’s most pointless meetings may not be the type you expect!
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Company Culture—all under 10 minutes.
The benefits of uninterrupted focus time
How Onfido implemented focus time across our tech organization
The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture
We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. Mostly because of our high-documentation, low-meeting work culture. We'll tell you exactly what that means.
«In a document, the content is all you have. It forces people to focus on communicating their ideas as clearly as possible.»
How to Communicate Your Company’s Strategy Effectively
For too long, communicating strategy has been an afterthought. Executives have shared long, bombastic documents or withheld critical information and expected people to just “get it.” And it hasn’t…
To Hell With Corporate Hierarchy Titles
Corporate hierarchy titles are like woolly mammoths—except they never went extinct. Is it not time for a fresh look at both hierarchy and job titles?
When Speaking Up, Timing Is Everything
Raising ideas or concerns to managers can raise your profile positively, but not if your busy manager doesn’t have the headspace for it. The authors present research suggesting that people who wait…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Company Culture.
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management &#…
How to be an Exceptional Chief of Staff: Advice for Scaling Impact at Startups
10 tactical tips and guiding principles for a new Chief of Staff to lean on as they scale their impact at a startup — from building better systems, not just booking more meetings and finding an…
5 Excellent Habits of High Performing Teams
What makes some teams do exceptionally well and others to perform poorly? Do they have more talented team members, better resources or are simply being lucky? Building extraordinary workplaces with…
«What separates a healthy team from an unhealthy one — the willingness to openly disagree and yet remain committed to supporting each other.»
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if…
«If the answer is outside of our product, where is it? A higher purpose or brand-promise that our customers buy into, aside from the product?»
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
What kind of governance system should you set up, if you're starting from scratch and can do it however you want?
Thought Leaders
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Eric Ries
Trying to change how startups are built.
Jason Fried
Founder & CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. No DMs, email me at jason@hey.com.

DHH
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY), NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner. No DMs, email: dhh@hey.com

Basecamp
The official account for Basecamp®, everyone’s favorite tool to keep teams on the same page. (Twitter only for updates, write support@basecamp.com for help.)
Boston Consulting Group
Official global account of Boston Consulting Group. Highlights of our work, initiatives, people, partnerships, and more. Also @BCGhenderson & @bcgx_
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Company Culture, including:
Corporate Rebels
On a mission to make work more fun | Travelling the world to learn from the most inspiring workplaces | Join the movement: http://corporate-rebels.com
MIT Sloan Management Review
Transforming how people lead and innovate.
Harvard Business Review
The best ideas in business and management to help people, organizations, and economies work better.
Atlassian
Maker of team collaboration tools @Jira, @JiraServiceMgmt, @Confluence, @Bitbucket, @Trello, @Statuspage, @OpsGenie, @AtlassianMarket and more.
Ed Zitron
CEO @EZPR. British. writer @thisisinsider @TheAtlantic @medium - Top 50 @bitech tech PR 4x - http://ez.substack.com - http://edzitron.medium.com - 2x Author
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