Introduction When companies fail, strategy is often blamed. Leaders analyze plans, market timing, competitors, or execution gaps. Rarely do they look inward at something far more powerful and far more fragile—organizational culture. Culture does not appear on dashboards or quarterly reports, yet it silently determines how people behave when no one is watching. It reveals itself in unspoken tension, declining engagement, unexpected resignations, and teams that stop caring. A weak culture rarely collapses overnight. It erodes slowly through small compromises that feel harmless at the time. One exception here, one ignored concern there, and soon distrust becomes normal. Employees may still show up, but they disengage emotionally long before they leave physically. Healthy company culture is not built through slogans or posters. It is built—and protected—through daily choices, especially when those choices are uncomfortable. Making Values Truly Non-Negotiable Every organization c...
Introduction “I am the wisest man on earth because I know one thing that I know nothing”. These mindful words are of Socrates. He is one of the most popular philosophers of all time. He sacrificed his life for humanity without even thinking twice. Socrates had not written his biography but we can know about him by reading books of his student, Plato. He was from a very poor family and his father was a sculptor. He fought for his nation as a young army man. Many times during the war he used to go to a lonely place and think for several hours. When he didn’t like army and sculptor work then he opened his own school where young students used to ask a wide variety of questions from him. Socrates was a very open-minded person but at that time people of Athens used to follow dogmatic rules. Due to his revolutionary ideas, he gained the attention of many other philosophers but few of them became his enemies. Death of Socrates The people of Athens were very conservative and there was great tur...