Organizational Cultures

A collection of examples of ways that humans and organizations have collected, codified, and expressed cultures, values, strategies, and passions.

While this is not intended to be a complete collection of "culture decks", it is an ever-growing collection of presentations, lists, jargon files, and maxims in which leaders and members of well-known organizations have inventoried and structured what they've deemed essential elements that shape their local ecosystems and how they work in the larger world. The qualifiers used in the description of what is to be included here is left intentionally vague to allow for a multiplicity of types of gathered wisdom.

(Updated 2024-02-27)

1. Nike's 10 Principles (Local JPG)
2. Netflix Culture Deck (Classic) (Current)
3. IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary, Tenth Edition Local PDF
4. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (Local PDF) by Sam Altman
5. The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams (Note: this isn't, specifically, a directly applicable collection of organizational culture, but it works to inspire in ways not too dissimilar to those of the IBM Jargon Dictionary)
6. 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice (Original list has been removed to market his related book) (Archive.org) (Local PDF) by Kevin Kelly
7. 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice (Original list has been removed to market his related book) (Archive.org) (Local PDF) by Kevin Kelly
8. Y-Combinator's essential startup advice (Local PDF)
9. Ten Principles of Good Design (Wikipedia) by Dieter Rams
10. US Government Design Review Process
11. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2007) (PDF) (Local PDF)
12. Hacker Ethics
13. MIT has a number of acronyms and jargon that creates a culture of a shared language across the Institute.
14. Tesla Master Plan (Part 1, 2006) (Part 2, 2016) (Part 3, 2023)
15. Wabi-Sabi – Again, not a directly applicable collection of organizational culture, but it works to inspire an approach to working on challenging things.
16. Hygge – Again, not a directly applicable collection of organizational culture, but it works to inspire an approach to working on challenging things.