[cduzz]

A company culture is a reflection of the company's leadership.

The culture of Microsoft has gone through radical changes between gates, balmer and nadella.

But a culture isn't _only_ a reflection of the leadership, it's all the interconnections of people and organizations within the whole company.

A leader can come in and make changes, and often these changes first have to break everything that's there already; without care what replaces the broken structures is just chaos; by default that chaos is the governing culture without more inputs and work from leadership.

These changes are most pronounced when 2 large organizations become one because both cultures have inertia (whole foods / amazon, slack / salesforce, etc). But yes, of course when CEOs change there's change to the corporate culture, but because there's only the force from the CEO's changes not entire cultures bashing into entire other cultures, the changes tend to be more gradual.

I am not an MBA or sociologist or really anyone with a worthwhile opinion, I've just been around the block and have the stories to tell or retell...