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Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
At the start of 2013, I gave a presentation to Percolate about our company values and vision for the year. By June, we had doubled our headcount to 60 people. When I referenced that presentation mid-year, I realized that half the people in the room had never heard it. That moment had a huge impact on my approach to company-building.
I became
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If you want to reap the benefits of Simplicity, think big—but don’t act that way. As Steve Jobs proved, one of the most effective ways to become a big business is to maintain the culture of a small business
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
... See moreI thought to myself, how many company CEOs are focused on culture above all else? Is it the metric they measure closest? Is it what they spend most of their hours on each week?
The thing that will endure for 100 years, the way it has for most 100 year companies, is the culture. The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If
If you define culture as the way we do things around here and you’re a growing organization, well, of course you have to be doing things differently. You have to do things differently around here. The one thing that must not change is your value system. That’s your compass. North always has to be north, and west has to be west, and east has to be... See more
Shane Parrish • Danny Meyer: Hospitality and Humanity [The Knowledge Project Ep. #115] - Farnam Street
Setting the culture you want, I learned you live the values rather than talking about them.