From the course: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Blinkist Summary)

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Visionary organizations

Visionary organizations

- [Narrator] Blink number six. The visionary organizations are almost cult-like. New recruits either thrive or leave. Visionary organizations pursue their core ideology so single-mindedly that their corporate cultures are almost cult-like. For example, new employees quickly find themselves socializing primarily with their colleagues and they are encouraged to be secretive about the inner workings of their companies. Employees often become completely immersed in the core ideology. Consider IBM, for example, where future managers in training would rise and sing songs from an IBM song book. ♪ Mark Job with IBM ♪ ♪ Work hard hand in hand ♪ Similarly, the Walt Disney Company expected its employees to live and breathe its core ideology of wholesome family fun. For example, men with facial hair were not accepted as employees in theme parks and anyone heard uttering a four letter word in the presence of Walt Disney himself…

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