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What are your company's anti-values?
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#93Punctuality-maniac policy. Take your seat at 09:01 (or 08:59!) rather than at 09:00 precisely and you're fucked. A delegate from a partner company or an employment candidate who would arrive to an appointed meeting 10 minutes later or earlier is considered a dick and treated with lowest priority.
Our old project manager mandated we must have daily stand-ups. They were always at least five minutes late for what should have been a five minute stand up because they knew we'd have to wait for them. I managed to get team agreement we start no later then 2 minutes past, no matter who isn't there, management included, no judgement for late comers but the meeting is starting as we have work to get on with. Suddenly s…
What do you do when the management comes in late but demands a recap lol. Fwiw I have seen folks who say they don’t but rekindle a lot of discussions directly / indirectly and do it anyway. Obviously none at our current company - my team does slack daily updates.
IOW - I see a lot of efforts at ‘curtailing’ mgmt powers. In my experience- Bottom up management or manipulation only goes so far - that’s not far. Pick your managers people. You want nice ones who also know how to hire well.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm finding that Netflix slide incredibly toxic, I'd never want to work for Netflix after reading that, no matter how skilled I was (they wouldn't want me anyway so nobody lost anything).
This is a signal that they have phrased their values well. A good values statement should polarize. It should disgust people whose ability to work effectively would be poisoned by the culture that leadership strives to maintain. A recruiting process which discriminates against people who do not share their values will create a more secure sense of belonging among people who do -- even among underprivileged groups who…
Do employees from underprivileged groups stay at Netflix longer than comparable companies?
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#95> “Learn and Be Curious” - what might that cost us? Maybe focus (because it’s ok to go down rabbit holes in order to learn something). So how about “Optimise learning over focus”? Maybe, maybe not. A couple of the values pulled out here are from the Amazon Leadership Principles. So there's actually an answer to this question! The opposite of "Learn and Be Curious" is "Bias for Action" and "Deliver Results". The Amazo…
Do the LPs themselves make it clear when they're supposed to be applied?
Don't worry, that is probably another one of the LPs. Maybe "Good leaders are right, alot"?
So no True Scottsman^h^h^h^h good leader would ever be confused about which LP applied
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a platitude, not toxic. Being a "pro sportsteam" on the other hand could be considered toxic. I know of no more cut throat legal business than sports. They are aggressivly signaling that they push KPI missers out.
Q: Is wanting to succeed considered a bad thing?
If we are talking NHL level exceptations at my dayjob, ye, it is a bad thing.
Especially as there are no way of rating programmers as fairly as sportsmen.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that actually result in any meaningful differences between these countries in the debate?
Its not an election issue in one of those countries, and in the other it is ... I doubt you even need to take a public stand on exactly what your position is on the issue to run for office.
It used to be, but the public debate moved away once legislation changed.
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#98There is a cultural aspect to this. American often try to be pro-stuff. French are always anti-stuff (pro life in the US, anti abortion in France, etc)
Does that actually result in any meaningful differences between these countries in the debate?
Usualy being against something is associate with being aginst change, and the other way around.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask, what you find toxic about them? I thought them to be refreshing honest and clear (but have not yet read all slides). I mean, it is also not attractive for me, because I would not put what is good for Netflix, over what is good for me - but otherwise I do not think a professional, internal competing sports team as a goal, is necessarily toxic.
I do agree that the honesty is refreshing. That said, I personally feel like the mentality of "We will fire you if you aren't doing an _exceptional_ job" reads as a serious red flag. The implication here is that you should expect to work overtime and prioritize your job over all else. Even then, we might still fire you. Of course I'd rather have a company being open and upfront about their unsustainable expectations,…
I interpret that as a positive sign. Every manager and company I've worked for has been too slow to fire under-performers.
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