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OK...  it's not dead yet, but it's not doing well...  and we are going to be just fine.

I've long felt this way, but didn't want to sound so final about it.  This past month, I've been reading Seth Godin's Tribes, and I think he agrees me and has inspired me to speak out.  So I'm speaking out...

The corporate culture (or "Factory" as Seth Godin calls it) was created as the best way to create a high quality, low-cost product.  Then it evolved into it's own kingdom and has been fiercely protected by the lords and princes who preside over it.  As someone who spent 10 years within Fortune 500 companies, I have seen it first hand.

Let me clarify my definition of "Corporations" here.  I don't speak of the legal entity common in business.  I am talking organizations that exist purely to protect their own existence.  I am talking about managers and corporate leaders who exist and operate solely within the world created by the company for the major purpose of being successful within the company.  I'm talking about organizations consisting of thousands of people, most of whom are looking up at their leadership asking "what next?" and whose leadership are responding "just don't rock the boat". 

These corporations are not evil in themselves, as many politicians claim (who are ironically members of one of the larger corporate cultures ever created).  They just suffer from a vacuum of a unified vision or greater purpose.  The goal of anyone entering the corporate culture is to "succeed" with "success" defined as "moving up the ladder".  The trophies of success are larger offices, bigger 401K's and better parking spaces.  The problem lies in that it is impossible to sustain an organization of 50,000 people who all want more parking without creating something external, which requires a Vision of something better.

The good news is that the corporate culture is dying because of 2 major reasons...

1) They are getting their butts kicked in the market
2) People don't want to play the corporate game anymore.

Sure many of the world's corporations will continue to exist over the next few decades, their influence will continue to decline.  Technology has improved our access to information... including a greater vision for what we can be and what we can create.  The world is changing and that's OK by me.

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