Before my story continues, I need to tell you about how WordPress started. This isn't simply because it's a great story, although it is, but to introduce its culture as a character in this book. While I won't bore you with grand theories of anthropology (I'll leave that to the professors), I'm certain that to learn from a place, you have to study how its culture functions. A great fallacy born from the failure to study culture is the assumption that you can take a practice from one culture and simply jam it into another and expect similar results. Much of what bad managers do is assume their
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