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Dave Duffield is a very savvy guy. The serial entrepreneur with multiple successes under his belt is doing it again; Workday, his latest company is on a best places to work list.

You may remember Dave’s last company PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle in a hostile takeover), which regularly made similar lists.

So what does Dave do that keeps his companies top rated? You can find the answers here,

“The Workday Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about Workday: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our Development “Show and Tell” happy hours, our soccer team, our recognition programs, but most importantly it’s our people. It’s everything that makes us different from your average employer, and everything that makes Workday a great place to spend a workday.”

I especially liked the list of cultural values to which they DON’T subscribe:

• Bureaucracy
• Top-down decision making
• Corporate politics
• Unnecessary organizational structure and hierarchy
• “Kissing up” and “slapping down”
• Boredom
• Cutthroat, shark-like business dealings

Take a few minutes to read the Core Values and Culture info and see how many you already embrace at your company and how many you can add.

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