What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

One thing he said really stuck with me. He said that when he was recruiting he looked for people who were smart, humble, hardworking, and collaborative. That’s what we needed. Those four are especially valuable in combination, because if you have just two of the four it can be a disaster.

I always felt that early hip-hop songs like Eric B. & Rakim’s “Follow the Leader” or Run-DMC’s “King of Rock” were about what I was doing as an entrepreneur.

Walk the Talk

State the facts clearly.

Encourage Bad News

Walk the talk.

Genghis created a remarkably stable culture by founding it on three principles: meritocracy, loyalty, and inclusion.

My way or the highway.

We have three rules here at Netscape. The first rule is if you see a snake, don’t call committees, don’t call your buddies, don’t form a team, don’t get a meeting together, just kill the snake. The second rule is don’t go back and play with dead snakes. Too many people waste too much time on decisions that have already been made. And the third rule