A Tale of Two Competitors’ Corporate Cultures
June 18, 2009 by Skip Weisman
Filed under Motivating Yourself & Others
A visit to the campuses of Microsoft and Google provide some insights into the corporate culture of the two global high tech leaders and competitors. You can read more about it in this Inc. Magazine article by Joel Spolsky who was on a missionary journey for his recently launched website “Stack Overflow.”
The article contrasts the openness and free feeling corporate culture of Google with the somewhat more traditional, more structured approach to corporate culture of the older, more established Microsoft.
On first thought I might have expected Microsoft to be more like its younger rival, but after reading the article and thinking about how Microsoft has come to dominate the personal computer and monopolize the operating systems for them, I could see now that the company might espouse a more structured, closed and regulated culture.
You can read more about it at Inc. Magazine
