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Culture Is The Water We Swim In Every Day

Culture Is The Water We Swim In Every Day

  • Catherine Spence
  • Pomello

I have a favorite quote from author David Foster Wallace that I feel speaks directly to company culture:

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, ‘What the hell is water?’ ”

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