How many of us think about organizational culture, good or bad? Wherever we work, it’s there, in the background somewhere. (Ironically, if you do a search on Google of “toxic corporate culture,” you’ll get over 27 million results.) Recently, the culture at Google came under similar unfavorable scrutiny when thousands of employees staged brief walk-outs at offices worldwide to protest sexism, racism, and uncurbed executive power. Social media colossus, Facebook, came in for its own bruising when reports surfaced of a “cult-like” culture where employee dissent was discouraged and leadership enforced a top-down approach when it came to decision-making. It painted a picture of a corporate culture that eroded work-life boundaries, where employees cried at their desks, and those who couldn’t cut it as Amazonians were culled in what one former HR manager called, “purposeful Darwinism.” Following the article, Amazon cried foul, with founder Jeff Bezos hitting back and saying he didn’t recognize the culture portrayed in the Times article.

Last year, the New York Times portrayed the culture at retail giant Amazon in pretty brutal terms. Organizational culture gets a lot of media attention-especially when it’s not-so-great.

Little do you know lps