When it comes to corporate #culture, do companies walk the talk?

Our @mitsmr paper finds no correlation between official #coreValues and employees' assessment of how well companies live those values

(Eees' assessment from 1.4 million @Glassdoor #Culture500 reviews)

1/ We studied 560 large, mainly US based companies.

82% publicized official corporate #values, and most companies had 3-7 values

We identified 62 distinct values listed by at least 1% of the companies and grouped similar ones (e.g., ethics, integrity, morality) together

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1/ @netflix's #culture evokes strong reactions.

@sherylsandberg said the deck describing Netflix culture "may well be the most important document ever to come out of the Valley,"

The @WSJ had a decidedly less positive take

wsj.com/articles/at-ne… 2/ It would be great to analyze @netflix culture using data not anecdotes

Today we launch the @mitsmr #Culture500 to analyze the cultures of 500+ major companies by analyzing the free text from 1.2 million @Glassdoor reviews

sloanreview.mit.edu/culture500?utm…

1) Ambitious goals are a powerful way to drive innovation

@Google lists 10X thinking as first among their principles of innovation

"true innovation happens when you try to improve something by 10 times rather than by 10%" 2) Unfortunately Google's emphasis on ambitious goals is the exception not the norm

We've surveyed more than 500 mostly large, global companies and found that pursuing ambitious goals and innovation are the two traits least likely to lead to promotion