[aljgz]

Throughout my career, I spent too much time trying to change organizations. I later realized that changing culture is prohibitively difficult when one person or a minority are trying it. I now know that it's better to "choose my battle". Only focus my energy on things that really matter, give a friendly comment, maybe coated in humour in all other situations. Cultural problems happen for reasons, and those reasons are usually very hard to change, like personality of the executives.

[alumic]

On swaying culture in any meaningful way: I thankfully learned that lesson early. It's one of the reasons I'm grateful for having worked here. As someone building a product on the side, it's been very useful to see how much influence executives can have on the business' culture. I've spent a fair amount of time reflecting on the problems my own personality might cause.