I have been thinking a lot about corporate culture lately. Some of this stems from my experience in recent months of helping to establish a business. Much of it also comes from talking to a range of business leaders, who have all been evangelising about the virtues of values within a company. Even hard-nosed corporate financiers have come around to the concept of company culture. Far from being an abstract, esoteric concept, many companies are now embracing the idea of value-based decision-making, with staff encouraged to participate in the process of developing, designing and implementing corporate canons. But mostly, I…