Join a good company. Leave a bad manager?
Yes… and no!
We all know the statement.
And yes, there’s truth in it, but not the whole truth.
When you join a company, you’re impressed by the potential, the energy, the welcome, the reputation. You meet great colleagues. You see opportunities.
You feel the culture.

When you leave, it’s often the opposite:
The environment feels off. Your boss truly sucks. The company has “changed.”
That’s the culture, too.

In other words: You join for the culture. You leave for the culture.

Netflix once defined culture by who gets hired, promoted, or asked to leave.
It’s the brutal truth and painfully accurate.
Because when you feel forced to leave due to a bad manager, one thing is always true:
👉 Someone once decided to promote that manager.
👉Someone still tolerates their behaviour.
👉 And the company pays the price in silence, turnover, and lost momentum.
We’ve seen it countless times!
It takes only a few years to build a toxic management layer, build on ingorance, cultivate political behaviour, and kill what once made the company special. When that happens, the culture doesn’t “evolve.”
It dies.
And with it, innovation, trust, courage and often: growth.
That’s why Culture, Leadership, and Values are not poster messages or brand campaigns.
You don’t publish them. You live them. Every day.
Your people feel it. Your customers feel it.
And when it’s fake or vague, they feel that, too.

It’s one of the reasons why we at Capo d’Ena decided to run our own business: With great customers. With fantastic partners.
With people who choose to work with us because of who we are.

We are helping thought leaders and we are helping brand enthusiasts!
So here comes the real question:
👉 How do you feel about the messages that describe your culture, your values, even your purpose?
Are they relevant, authentic, true?
Or could they belong to almost any company?
If it’s the latter, let’s talk.
Let’s go deeper. Will you accept the challenge?
Let’s find the roots, energize the potential, and create messages that kick ass emotionally and move the business.

Because culture is not what you write.
It’s what you tolerate and what you empower.
And what you choose : every single day. Yes and no ?!