Written culture is higher leverage

Organizations that write things down have a larger advantage than they used to. Let’s take two companies: Speakeasy Corp WriteItDownCorp At Speakeasy, leaders share information verbally. They have spoken updates, status meetings, and get everone on the same page verbally. At WriteItDownCorp, the company has a written culture. Everything is documented and organized. It's not official until it's written down in the wiki™. There are tradeoffs to both types of companies. But I believe that over the next few years, written cultures will have higher leverage than spoken ones. What is written culture A written culture doesn't mean that people don't talk to each other. It means that there is a strong culture of writing within the company. I've worked at a lot of companies. More than most people. And company culture varies significantly, mostly based on the biases of the founders and executive team. Signs of a written culture You have a company handbook or departmental handbooks that are up to…