“They created monsters”

My new friend “Nate” said that when he described the giant tech company that bought his startup.

In a culture of massive entitlement, it’s hard to get people to do productive work together without begging or bribing them.

Most of us work outside the Big Tech world, but many of us have friends there. And when you get them to open up, they’ll admit that a sickness is pervading their corporate campuses.

Too much junk food—or too much easy money and lavish benefits—can make companies and the people working for them worse off.

The rest of us can learn from what happens when Culture Debt hits a crisis point. We can see that providing meaning at work can have a much more positive impact on the business—and employees’ lives—than free meals or massages.

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