A great deal of ink has been spent over the past thirty years or so on the idea of corporate or organizational culture. Back in the 1980’s, I picked up a now-famous book, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman’s In Search of Excellence, that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). I was working at DEC at the time and, like many other employees of the company, I was proud of the DEC culture and the fact that it was considered a great place to work and a model for other companies, where CEO Ken Olsen was simply known as “Ken” by the employees. Peters and Waterman’s book spawned an entire industry in corporate culture consultants and an endless stream of books about corporate and organizational culture has followed right into the present.