This idea of strengths and weaknesses, dislikes and desires, holds at an organizational level as well. Groups, subteams, and even institutions take on a personality, in a remarkable, complex, and sometimes unfathomable way. IBM has a different culture than Apple, which is different still from Autodesk, or Cisco or Google. Within NASA the Johnson Space Center has a different culture from Ames Research Center, which differs from Marshall Space Flight Center and, of course, from JPL. The differences among the various centers’ cultures can be used to forge strong, highly functioning teams, or they
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