Company Culture
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Company Culture
Our culture is four things: customer obsession instead of competitor obsession; willingness to think long term, with a longer investment horizon than most of our peers; eagerness to invent, which of course goes hand in hand with failure; and then, finally, taking professional pride in operational excellence.
Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which members of the group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of problems. It can be a powerful management tool.
hbr.org • How Will You Measure Your Life?
Build honesty into your culture, not transparency.
David • 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Startup Advice
Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11)
youtube.comHow to Design (and Redesign) the Practices of Company Culture
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