Company Culture
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Company Culture
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 you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
Brian Chesky • Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
If you look closely, all these problems fundamentally come from:
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- Decreased skin in the game, which reduces team alignment
- N^2 communication, which creates need for managers and specialization, which reduces individual agency and breadth of learning
- Reduced risk tolerance, which slows everything down
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Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
Marc Benioff • 5 highlights
amazon.comHow we manage
How we manage At our company, we strive to make every team member the best version of themselves. This is a very difficult thing to do, and so it's helpful to articulate how exactly we do it. Managing a person or a team is a very unnatural job. As an individual, your performance is typically mea...
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this piece by Brian Armstrong got a lot of shit, but i think the underlying premise is valid. it is hard enough to try to solve one big problem, let alone to be on the hook for all the other problems plaguing the world
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 goo
So "unsafe environment" = "somebody who disagrees with me"? How are we supposed to have conversations w each other like this, as humans? The whole point of a conversation is to gather different viewpoints!
Stem is versō which means "to turn"! Not to stay where you were before... Show more
healthy disagreement is important