Corporate culture is hard to define, yet few other factors have as much significance in shaping your experience at, or valuation of, a firm. A suitable corporate culture is one where your fiscal years goals align with what you would consider achievements beyond the corporate campus; an unsuitable culture will make you more restless than Tiger Woods sitting out and watching the annual rounds at Augusta on TV.

I’ll lament some other day over my misspent youth (sigh) with the corporate sharks (couldn’t help tossing this phrase:). Readers may be more interested in several articles on Google’s corporate culture, and how that may contribute to its continuing success: HERE, HERE and HERE.

Its interesting to me that Google is both a cool company and a powerful corporation. Lets hope it stays that way.