My Culture, Your Culture, Our Culture..

Zappos Core Values by Me

I came to United States about 9 months ago and yep I changed a lot, but it’s impossible to replace all the past years’ experiences with these 9 months' .

There are about 7 billion people in the world who are all different from the each other; we think differently, feel differently, talk differently, live differently, etc. Although we have nearly similar problems, we have different solutions. But, when we look closer we see that some communities have similar solutions or we can at least group some of the people based on some similarities. We can group people according to their nationalities, according to their gender, and according to their jobs. So, what can we call this thing that connects some people, makes them understand others? It is like a secret agreement among the people in a community that helps them to stay together in peace and to create a unity. Yes, our word is CULTURE.

May be we all born with some characteristics, but as we grow, we learn a lot of things from our environment. We learn how to think, how to speak, how to behave and even how to feel. We start being programmed slowly with all these data. When we want to make some changes in our program after a few years, we need to reach main code of our program to make a permanent change, which is not so possible. But one thing we can do is to add some new properties to our program and use the convenient ones in the convenient times.

So culture makes us connected, helps us to understand each other and to generate common solutions, constitutes the feeling of unity, and as a result creates a society that has the same interests.

While there is the culture for a country that creates the feeling of homesickness, another one is the company culture which makes a substantial company and differentiates it from the others.

Zappos is the company that introduced me the concept of company culture. After observing their efforts on creating their core values and keeping them alive, I started to think the importance of having a specific company culture. And it didn’t take me so long to understand its importance after I started following Zappos blog, following Tony and other Zapponians on Twitter, and reading Zappos Culture book. Everyone is working so hard just to present their culture and core values in a lot of different ways, and they are really good at this. As they always do, they again create another brilliant idea to pull us to more inside of Zappos with their 2 day Bootcamp which is to express themselves in a different way. And I found myself again trying to meet these people, to be a closer witness to their success. May be this is my lucky day..