> I've worked for about a dozen companies in my 30+ year career. None have been well run, most are out of business I did tech consulting early in my career, so

> I've worked for about a dozen companies in my 30+ year career. None have been well run, most are out of business I did tech consulting early in my career, so got to see a large number of companies as I was working for them. Some good, some bad. There were a few reliable characteristics about the good ones though: - Distilled corporate culture into learnable points, ensured everyone learned those, and then reliably used and referenced them in the context of everyday business decisions - Centralized strategy, decentralized tactics. Execs cane up with strategic targets, then implementers were free to design their own solutions to deliver those - Had an expectation of employee-initiated internal mobility (team switching) and used it as a management evaluation signal - Had a strong internal process for recognizing when they promoted / hired a bad manager (i.e. they made sure a bad manager with a good team didn't look good)