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I started reading The Corporate Culture Survival Guide this weekend at the park.

It's re-introduced a good, relativistic way of thinking about groups that's easy to loose grip on in the swirl of all the methodologies and other corporation self-help books. Here's a good sampling:

Every organization that succeeds develops a way of structuring work; defining the production and marketing process; and creating the kinds of information, reward, and control systems it needs to operate effectively. As these systems continue to work, they are taken for granted as the way to do things, and an employee who moves from one company to another finds it difficult to learn how to work in the new environment. It is for this reason that once organization have strong cultures, they prefer to promote from within. It is often too difficult to train an outsider in "how things are done around here."

It's also a nice thin book, just under 200 pages at 191. In that respect, it manages to get to the point without a bunch of overzealous biz-book selling.