After a while, although you may not be aware of it, you are teaching the new hires the culture. Indeed, at age fifty, as a senior-level manager, you may be almost oblivious to the culture. You have lived in it for so long, and found it so compatible from the beginning, that you relate to the culture as a fish does to water. Because it is everywhere yet invisible, you just don’t think about it, despite the big influence it has on you. Fish get air and food from the water. You get a certain pleasing predictability, lots of positive reinforcement, and a strong emotional attachment to your
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