--- title: "1 Career path Quotes By Will Dean" description: "1 Career path quotes by Will Dean. Plus more from Will Dean and more Career path sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d80/will-dean-58556_business_if-that-sounds-cultish-i-m-unapologetic_603988.jpg" --- > [“If that sounds cultish, I’m unapologetic. When organizations talk about creating an innovative business culture, a lot of people focus on the external symbols. The ping-pong and foosball tables in the office, the team-building Thursday beers after work, the company…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-dean/if-that-sounds-cultish-i-m-unapologetic-when-organizations-talk-about/) [Will Dean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-dean/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d80/will-dean-58556_business_if-that-sounds-cultish-i-m-unapologetic_603988.jpg) ## More by Will Dean > [“Too much Cajun in you, Brooke. 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When organizations talk about creating an innovative business culture, a lot of people focus on the external symbols. The ping-pong and foosball tables in the office, the team-building Thursday beers after work, the company ski weekends, and the anything-goes dress code. At TMHQ we have all those things. But they are marginal to what we are really about. A culture is built up over months and years of good practice, questioning, and improvement. Of doing things the right way and having anyone who comes into the group or participates in an event recognize what that means. Culture is all the things that happen in an organization when the boss isn’t looking. Tony Hsieh describes, in his book Delivering Happiness, how he built his online shoe business Zappos by concentrating on service and integrity above all else. “Your personal core values define who you are,” he argued, “and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.” I think that’s true, and doubly so when you are “delivering happiness” as an experience that asks people to take on and display some of the virtues of that culture themselves. In this sense, we believed, in our initial phase of recruiting, that a candidate’s previous career path and qualifications were less important than his or her willingness to embrace our credo. Though we had no experience in event management, the plan was never to go out and hire people from the event industry. 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