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The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]
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#43Dan Lyons roasted them in his LinuxCon 2017 talk [1].
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
But did you try "harmonizing work and life" like the deck says?
No such thing. Just a catch phrase man.
That’s the joke. Platitudes like “harmonize work and life” just puts the responsibility on the employee to repair their personal life after its damaged by corporate mismanagement.
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#45That's nice. Thanks for sharing it. Expect loads of cynicism. I've found that talking about having Principles and Integrity in business and professional endeavors, usually results in being accused of "virtue signaling," which is ridiculous, as we are only talking about simple, basic, realistic human values; not some kind of Mother Theresa code. That said, it is extremely easy to let a focus on "culture" turn into a t…
Most people have been around the valley long enough to learn exactly what these values mean when it comes down to it. People are wise not to be drawn in too much to cultural platitudes of a company. > “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Good point, a lot of cynicism is earned. I think that it is absolutely vital for culture to be modeled from the top.
Also, owners and corporate stakeholders are often so married to their work, that they have a difficult time understanding folks that aren't (like most of their employees). That means you can hear things like "I sleep in my office every weeknight, so I expect you to, as well."
Part of modeling culture is to understand others, and that's where most people fall down.
But I also think that cynical employees often grow into cynical, toxic managers, and that's where a lot of damage is done.
For myself, I have followed a path of personal growth, for my entire adult life, and I brought that with me to work. It helps me to feel decent about myself, my peers, and the world, in general (and I can still be a cynic, but one with a significant vein of love and tolerance).
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#46HubSpot? The company described as Office Space meets Scientology? The company that is famous for churning through new grads, the one with the fucked up culture an entire book was written about (Disrupted [1])? The one that FBI investigated because they manipulated and extorted people [2]? That HubSpot? Okay.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/books/review/disrupted-by...
[2] https://www.samueljscott.com/2018/12/19/hubspot-fbi-report
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#47Creepy corporate newspeak.
Couldn't have said it better - your worlds are exactly what I was thinking.
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#48Love the product, but this deck... jeez. It's like all this companies that claim that you're in the family and then this family ask you to leave. I've seen too much places with "culture" when in reality it's a toxic as hell.
I agree with you on that front. In earlier versions of the deck, we actually explicitly called out that we are NOT a family. We are a team with a common goal. You don't get to choose your family, but you do get to choose your team. h/t to Netflix for that original "team not a family".
Why did you remove that call-out?
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#49Old World--------------------| New World--------------------| Me-------------------------------
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Work to make a living | Work to make a difference | Nope [1]
Follow explicit instructions | Chart the course | Depends on the role [2]
Juggle work and life | Harmonize work and life | Sounds like: never stop working
Commute into work | Connect to work from anywhere | Sounds like: never stop working
Value amazing perks | Value amazing people | I like people, even unamazing ones
I think only someone who has lost their sense of distinction between their work and their life can write these out as ideals. I.e. A startup founder.
[1] I am not knocking making a difference, but that isn't the organizational imperative of any business. And it is a dangerous delusion to say it is.
[2] I learnt a lot following orders at different times
Edits: not sure I'm going to figure this tabulation out
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#50That's nice. Thanks for sharing it. Expect loads of cynicism. I've found that talking about having Principles and Integrity in business and professional endeavors, usually results in being accused of "virtue signaling," which is ridiculous, as we are only talking about simple, basic, realistic human values; not some kind of Mother Theresa code. That said, it is extremely easy to let a focus on "culture" turn into a t…
> [...] as we are only talking about simple, basic, realistic human values; not some kind of Mother Theresa code. The problem I've found in having these conversations is that, for some people, the moment you disagree with their "simple, basic, realistic human values", things turn toxic. Ie. it's not really a discussion, it's "these are my values and you either agree with them or you're a terrible person". For example…
BLM is an organization with a website and a mission. Black lives matter is a belief that basically everyone shares.