Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes a unique leader that consistently earns trust and respect.
You've got to do it to know it -- to keep the culture strong is to keep what you do intact.
But at the end of the day, strong culture and strong leadership will trump most organizational roadblocks.
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But as long as hip-hop's hold on pop culture remains strong, the number of rappers crossing-over into the movies is expected to grow.
But the need for deep knowledge of the business and company culture and strong relationships within the organization mean that much of the talent needs to be home grown.
The taboo against suicide in western culture remains strong.
For a US company, the UK - with the same language, similar culture and strong geographic and historic links with Europe and countries further afield like India and Africa - proves an excellent launch pad for international expansion.
In the Bersin and Associates June 2010 paper, High-Impact Learning Culture, Principal Analyst David Mallon describes how working to create a strong culture of learning is a business strategy deserving the attention of senior leadership.
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And in a culture which reveres strong personalities, that counts for a lot.
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Hearsay has a very strong culture and only hires people who fit.
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Imagine an agency with strategic, creative and management talent, with a strong culture and a process, supported by a network of independent small contractors.
But the intolerant actions of these fundamentalists must be considered in the context of a minority language besieged by the culture of a strong neighbour.
Thanks to them, her bond to Ukrainian culture is also strong.
More specifically, these start-up CEOs must hire talent, create a strong culture, build products that attract customers, pick a market to target, and develop a business model.
Reddit stands by anonymity and the culture is so strong that its community boycotted Gawker for exposing the identity of a popular (though controversial) moderator, the ur-troll violentacrez.
The result, the report said, was a "strong drive to win", particularly as the bank became increasingly dominated by the investment banking business, which possessed a strong culture of winning.
That is not what matters most, Mr Zhao counters: Chinese firms have a very strong culture and little experience working with outsiders, which he thinks gives Hony a decisive edge.
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Although unique in some important ways, our struggle to create a food system that keeps our bodies, minds, culture and economies strong is shared by communities throughout the United States and across the globe.
The Japanese nuclear power industry needs a good dose of cleansing sunlight, and as we weigh our own energy portfolio we need to ensure we ground any energy industry in a strong culture of transparency, accountability, and safety.
Since the financial crisis struck in 2008, CEOs have sought to improve collaboration and decision making, recognizing that a strong culture is "a critical component of their long-term success, " says Nick Neuhausel, a partner at consulting firm Senn Delaney, which advised Dynegy.
The grip of Goldman's strong partnership culture has loosened since the firm went public in 1999.
The company is renowned for its innovation and has a strong management culture that is focused on efficiency and controlling costs.
Already, innovative companies like Google, Nike, and IDEO have a strong questioning culture, as do some nonprofit innovators such as The Acumen Fund.
To prevent change from tearing them apart, long-lived firms are adept at infusing each successive generation of employees with a strong corporate culture.
In addition, a stigma remains that if you work for a nonprofit your retirement benefits, training, and a strong corporate culture will be virtually non-existent.
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The reasons for this divergence with other advanced countries likely includes such things as continuing immigration, greater space, larger houses, a strong aspirational culture and a higher degree of religious affiliation.
Not long ago, Bob Whitman, the chairman and CEO of the famed leadership training firm Franklin Covey, told me a story about how building a strong company culture can be tougher than it seems.
Offsetting this concern is a strong management team and an equally strong corporate culture that has been indoctrinated for years by Steve Jobs and that is able to execute on the road map effectively.
We maintain a very strong corporate culture which I think is evident to the clients, and considering the kind of turmoil that the shipping markets are often in, I think that stability, consistency, and reliability are really the important ingredients for us to continue to grow and develop our business further.
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