While working on-site at another company, I have noticed a distinct lack of strong company culture. The place is a bit sluggish, and non-interactive in their daily activities. The one bit of “fun” that is injected into the environment is corporate culture icons: Dilbert cartoons, Office Space paraphernalia, and other equally clichéd items.
In lieu of good, strong company culture, is it okay to adopt the mainstream clichés for corporate culture? Is it better to have no culture than trite culture? How should a company go about building its own culture?
It seems to me that even when corporate clichés are injected into a company that not much is really achieved by it. The problem is much more systemic than that. The company needs a fresh perspective, a fresh start, some real interaction with each other to build a distinct culture that works for them.