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Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
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 e... See more
Shane Parrish • Danny Meyer: Hospitality and Humanity [The Knowledge Project Ep. #115] - Farnam Street
Evan Frank added
you grow, you can’t lose the very thing that gave you the opportunity to grow. When you consider expanding, in any form, you have to first stop and identify what makes your culture unique and decide in advance to protect whatever that is.
Will Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Culture is the non-fiction story of an organization. It writes itself.
Jason Fried (jason@hey.com) • Company Culture Is the Last 50 Days
Chesky pushes PMs to always lead with the perfect experience without constraint . "Airbnb has stretched me to think about entire experiences, not just software."
Ken Norton • Building Products at Airbnb
Kassen Qian added
Setting the culture you want, I learned you live the values rather than talking about them.
Apple • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
Gaia Soykok added
In my experience most of the companies are run by highly creative, idealistic people. Many of them started off with products that were optimized for the needs of the users and community and almost all of them ended up optimized for the needs of the company.
Chris Dixon • "Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online
sari added
Culture is what culture does. Culture isn’t what you intend it to be. It’s not what you hope or aspire for it to be. It’s what you do. So do better.