Corporate Culture

There is an article which I read on ' Career Imprinting'.
The company where you spend your initial years mark a strong impression
on you.
There is a distinct GE culture,Bain culture,Infy or TCS culture.

How would this imprinting define/describes the behavior of the personin
later stages of his career is the point to be seen.
Like GE known as the 'CEO factory' has a very decentralized culture and
a person gets a chance early on to make decisions.
While at some companies,there is centralized organization structure
which leads to always looking for perfection and details before passing
on the decision making baton to other person usually at a higher level...

Our thinking gets moulded by this.may be because initial years are the
most impressionable.

I,but wonder sometimes about this corporate culture.
When I joined my company as a fresher, a whole new project was on its
way.And total recruitment was done from the industry.
We were all new to the company--laterals and freshers alike.Barring 1-2
persons,all were new.

So whats the culture at my place.
Well it was an amalgam of all the different thinkings of various people
from different organizations.All joined to form a new
culture--informal,friendly

,hierarchy based(i hated this thing)...While
the original company culture could be altogether different...

So,culture for me is not hard bound and rigid.
It is an evolving process,one which should be encouraged to encompass
all the better things and leave apart the bad ones...

Will write more later.