Company Culture
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Company Culture
somewhere along the line we morphed "bad working environment" and "hard working environment" together and transferred the sins of the former to the latter.
Kyle Harrison • Toil We Must
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
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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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.